Annotation:Reading made Easy (1) (The)

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READING MADE EASY, THE. AKA and see “Billy McCormick's Jig,” “New Lesson.” Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is a variant of "Spailpin a Ruin (A)," itself a variant of "Blackbird (The)."

Source for notated version: “From Father Walsh’s MS” [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed sources: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 672, p. 169.

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