Annotation:Harp that Once (The)
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HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS, THE. AKA and see "Gradh Mo Croidhe," "Gramachree," "Molly Asthore," "Will You Go to Flanders?," "Little Molly O!" Irish, American-Air (3/4 and 4/4 times); English, March; Scottish, Guaracha Waltz. D Major (Roche): G Major (Kerr, O'Flannagan). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Kerr): AB (Roche). An air used (under another title) as a British march during the (American) Revolutionary War period, and later a famous song (under the above title) set to the old air by Thomas Moore in 1807.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880's; No. 311, p. 34. O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), 1860; p. 29. Roche (Collection of Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 28, p. 15.
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