Annotation:Dark Girl in Blue (1) (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
DARK GIRL (DRESSED) IN BLUE [4], THE (An Cailín Dubh i bhFeisteas Gorm). AKA and see "Denis Murphy's Slide [1]," "The Girl in the Dress," "The Gleanntán (Slide)," "Julia Clifford's Slide [1]," "Murphy's (Slide)," "Napoleon Crossing the Alps [2]," "Pádraig O'Keeffe's Slide [1]." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Source for notated version: from the playing of piper Séamus Ennis (Dublin), who learned them from his father, a piper taught by Nicholas Markey who in turn had been taught by the renowned piper and pipe-maker Billy Taylor of Drogheda and later Philadelphia [Breathnach].
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Breathnach (Ceol V, No. 2), 1982. Breathnach (The Man and His Music), 1997; No. 5, p. 73. Breathnach (CRÉ III), 1985; No. 50, p. 23. Treoir III, I p. 12 (untitled).
Recorded sources: Tara Records 1009, Séamus Ennis - "The Fox Chase" (1978) See also listing at Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1].