Annotation:Moreen

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MOREEN (Moirin). See "Minstrel Boy." Irish, Air (2/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune for which Thomas Moore set his lyric "The Minstrel Boy." It first appeared in Neale's collection of 1787. The title is a variant of the name Maureen. See also the related tune "Tither Morn (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 1967, p. 270.

Recorded sources:

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