Annotation:Irish Girl (4) (The)
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IRISH GIRL [4], THE. AKA and see "Christmas Day in the Morning (4)," "Love for Ever (1)." English, Jig. B Flat Major (Kerr): A Major (Doyle, Gow, Köhler’s). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Northumbrian musician William Vickers included the tune as "Love for Ever (1)" in hin 1770 music manuscript collection.
Source for notated version: a c. 1847 music manuscript by Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown Tune Book].
Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 9. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 46. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788, p. 15 (3rd ed.). Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 279, p. 30. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book 2), 1881-1885; p. 192.
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