Banks of Banna (The)

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Theme code Index	1H1H3H3H 1H555
Also known as	When Through Life Unblest We Roam, Molly Asthore, Shepherds I Have Lost My Love, Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed, Oh! Nevermore
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Patrick Flannagan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Hibernia Collection (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 7
Year of publication/Date of MS	1860
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<abc> X:2 T:Banks of Banna M:4/4 L:1/8 B:Flannagan - Hibernia Collection (Boston, 1860) N:This is one of Elias Howe's publications Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:C c3d e2(ed)|c2G2G4|A2G2c2 B(d/c/)|B2A2G4| c3c (ce) (eg)|G2A (AG) (FE)|(FG)AB (cBc)F|E2D2C4|| E3D E3F|G2 G(A/G/) G4|A2G2c2 B(d/c/)|B2A2G4| c2c2 (ce) (eg)|(G2G)A (AGFE)|(FGAB) (cBc)F|E2D2C4|| </abc>

BANKS OF BANNA. AKA and see "When Through Life Unblest We Roam," "Molly Asthore," "Shepherds I Have Lost My Love," "Had I a Heart for Falsehood Framed," "Oh! Nevermore." Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning. AB. An air very popular in the 18th century, according to George Moffat, to which Thomas Moore set "When thro' life unblest we rove" and George Ogle set "Shepherds I have lost my love." Moffat finds the Banna melody "merely an adaptation" of an older Irish air, "Sin sios agus suas liom" (Down beside me), published in Daniel Wright's Aria di Camera (c. 1730) {Moore also wrote a song to this latter air, called "Oh where is the slave"}. See also note for "Down Beside Me."

Printed source: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 128, pg. 23.

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