Annotation:Reading made Easy (1) (The)
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READING MADE EASY, THE. AKA and see “Billy McCormick's Jig,” “New Lesson (The).” Irish, Air (6/8 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody is a variant of "Spailpín Rúin/Spailpín a Rúin (A)," itself a variant of "Blackbird (1) (The)." See also O'Neill's version "New Lesson (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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