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Theme code Index
153 6L24
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region
Ireland
Genre/Style
Irish
Meter/Rhythm
Slip/Hop Jig
Key/Tonic of
D
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
9/8
History
IRELAND(Connaught)
Structure
AB
Editor/Compiler
Stephen Grier
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection Book 4
Tune and/or Page number
No. 31, p. 7
Year of publication/Date of MS
c. 1883
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T:Quench the Candle
M:9/8
L:1/8
R:Slip Jig
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (1883, Book 4, No. 31, p. 7)
N:Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally
N:from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark,
N:Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim.
F: https://manuscripts.itma.ie/grier/book-four/
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
DED A2D F2D|B,2E E2F GFE|DED A2D F2D|A,2D D2F E2D||
D3 f2d cBA|Bcd e2d cBA|BdB A2G FED|A,2D D2F E2D|
D3 f2d cBA|Bcd e2d cBA|dcB A2G FED |A,2D D2F E2D||
