Annotation:Sweet Transports
X:1 T:Sweet Transports M:C L:1/8 R:Slow Air S:O’Farrell – Pocket Companion, vol. IV (c. 1810) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmix FG | A>FAd gfed | (Bc/d/) AF {F}E3B | AFAd gfed | (Bc/d/) AF D>E D :| f | gfed B2 cd | A>ddf f2 e>f | ecBA ^G/F/d/c/ e/d/c/B/ | A2 Be A3F | G>AGB AF d>c | BAGF F2 EF/G/ | AFAd fg {f}a3A | (Bc/d/) AF DE D F | E/D/E/F/ D>E D/F/A/d/ A/d/f/a/ | af e/d/e/f/ d2 ||
SWEET TRANSPORTS. English, Air (4/4 time). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Sweet Transports" is an air contained in uilleann piper O'Farrell's collection published in London around 1810. O'Farrell's collection included a good number of Irish tunes, but also included Scottish and English melodies as well. In this case, the air is from a song in the opera Rosina, staged in London in 1783 with music by Wikipedia:William Shield and written by Mrs. Brooke. The words to the song begin:
Sweet transports gentle wishes go
The song was reprinted in period songsters and was entered into a few musicians' manuscript collections on both sides of the Atlantic.
