Annotation:Nancy the Pride of the West

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NANCY THE PRIDE OF THE WEST. AKA and see "Ar Eirinn ni Neosfainn Ce Hi," "For Ireland I'd Not Say (Tell) Her Name [1]," "Melodious Little Lis of Bruff (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Dr. Petrie published the Kilkenny version of this air in his Ancient Music of Ireland (p. 99). The setting I give here from memory as I heard the old people of Limerick sing it in my young days, is different, and is more simple and more purely vocal. There is a beautiful song in Irish to this air, which I published set to the music in my Irish Music and Songs (p. 22)--Ar Eirinn ni 'neosainn ce hi (For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name). Sometimes the air is known by this name: and it is also often called 'Binn lisin aerach a Bhrogha' (The Melodious Littel Lis of Bruff, Co. Limerick) from a song about that place" (Joyce).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 410, p. 221.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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