Annotation:Carolan's Cottage

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CAROLAN'S COTTAGE. Irish, Air or Planxty (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Sullivan, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Barnes). Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Donal O'Sullivan (1958) has little to say about this air, save that it is similar in structure to that of Carolan's "Lament for Terence MacDonough."

Source for notated version: "From P. Carew's MS" [O'Sullivan, Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 64 (appears as "The Introdcution", the title of a 1996 dance by Fried de Metz Herman set to the tune). Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 184, p. 128. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 184, p. 206. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 670, p. 168.

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