Annotation:It was on a fair calm morning
Tune properties and standard notation
IT WAS ON A FAIR CALM MORNING. Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Compare--both name and tune--with No. 12 of my Ancient Irish Music (1873)" (Joyce).
Source for notated version: "Paddy Conneely, the Galway fiddler," via (Irish collector William) Forde (Joyce).
Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 475, pp. 263-264.
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