Annotation:Sligo Tune

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X:1 T:Sligo Tune M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Very Plaintive" N:”Very ancient, Augor and date unknown.” B:Bunting – Ancient Music of Ireland (1840, No. 113) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Cmin G|{G}.e2 T([=Bd]>c)|.c2 (.G>.G)|{G}.e2 T([G=Bd]>c)|(.c.c) Td2| .e(d/c/) (.B.c)|(B<G) (.G.G)|G2 z:|:.G|.G(G/=A/) (._B[=Bd])|[G2c2e2g2|[G2d2f2]|]c2e2\T([=B>d]>c)| (c/d/)(c/_B/) (.G.G)|(.G.G._B.G)|.B(c/d/) e2|[G3d3]c|(_B<G) .G[CE]|!fermata![=B,3D2G2]:|]

SLIGO TUNE (Abhran Shligigh). Irish, Slow Air (2/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Collector Edward Bunting (1840) thought the first bar of this tune was similar to the Scotch song "Will you go to the Ewe boughts Marion," and opined: "The wildness of the melody is remarkable, though not without merit."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the tune from a Mrs. Best of County Sligo in 1802.

Printed sources : - Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1840, No. 113, p. 86. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 115, pp. 165-166.

Recorded sources: -

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