Annotation:Betty O'Brien

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BETTY O'BRIEN. AKA and see "Kitty O'Brien." Irish, Air (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by blind Irish Harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Donal O'Sullivan (1958) could find no information regarding Betty O'Brien (whose name was Betty, not Kitty, according to the words set to the tune). Collector Edward Bunting noted a version of the tune ("Kitty O'Brien") from the playing of harper Charles Fanning and printed it in his General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (London, 1796, No. 38).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 111, p. 82. O'Sullivan (O'Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 111, p. 160.

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