Annotation:Caitlín Tirial

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X:1 T:Caitilín Tirrail (old version) M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow" S:The mid-19th cent. music manuscript collection of James Goodman (County Cork, p. 265) F: http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=268&z=1413.7937%2C2905.3823%2C3822.8306%2C2315.52 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G GE|D2D2 EF|G2G2 Bd|ef g2 fd|f2 e2 (3fed| d2B2 BA|G2G2 GF|G2B2 AG|E4 GE| D2D2 EF|G2G2 Bd|ef gf ed|f2e2 (3fed| d2B2 BA|G2G2 Ac|B2 GBAF|G4|| (3def|g2f2 gf|e2f2 ed|e2 egfe|d4 (3def| g2 gf ed|f2 ed BA|G2B2 (3AGF|E4 GE| D2D2 EF|G2G2 Bd|ef gf ed|f2 e2 (3fed| d2B2 BA|G2G2 Ac|B2 GBAF|G4:|]

CAITLÍN TIRIAL (Kitty Tyrell). AKA - "Caitlin Triall." AKA and see "Kitty Tyrell (2)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major (Roche): G Major (Ó Canainn). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Roche): AAB (Ó Canainn). The melody appears in Cooke's Selection of Favourite Original Irish Airs arranged for Pianoforte, Violin or Flute (Dublin, 1793). The tune also appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman [1]. A version of the tune in 6/8 time can be found as "Little Red Lark of the Mountain (1)."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 23, p. 26. Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 3), 1927; No. 25, p. 7 (second setting).

Recorded sources: -Island ILPS 9501, "The Chieftains Live" (1977). Rounder Records 3067, Alan Stivell - "Renaissance of the Celtic Harp" (1982).

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