Annotation:Munster Grass

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MUNSTER GRASS. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by fiddler and composer Ed Reavy (1898-1988) of County Cavan/Philadelphia. The title (and its companion piece) comes from a line by Yeats: "Full of Munster grass and Connemara skies."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bain ('50 Fiddle Solos), 1989; p. 36. Reavy (The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy), No. 98, p. 111.

Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 1027, Mick Moloney - "Strings Attached" (1980). Patty Furlong -"Traditional Irish Music on Button Accordion" (1999).

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info []
http://www.irishtune.info/tune/3559/

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