Annotation:Caoine (An)
Tune properties and standard notation
CAOINE, AN (The Lament). AKA and see "Irish Cry," "The Goll," "The Little Lamentation," "The Great Lamentation," "Second Goll and Half Chorus," "Half Chorus of Sighs and Tears." Irish, Air (3/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The index to Bunting's 1840 collection gives the source as "O'Neill, harper and from the hired mourners or keeners at Armagh; and from a MS. above 100 years old." A melody with the title "An Irish Cry" can be found in Thompson's Hibernian Muse of 1786, followed by its jig.
Source for notated version: harper Arthur O'Neill, via Edward Bunting (1840, p. 59) [O'Sullivan].
Printed sources: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 81, pp. 124-125.
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