Annotation:Green Pigeon (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
GREEN PIGEON, THE (An Colúr Glas). Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Breathnach's source had no name for the tune, although the collector had found a version of it in the Goodman manuscripts (c. 1860's, southwest Munster), under the title "Green Pi(d)geon." The melody appears as "The Blue Pi(d)geon" in a manuscript from County Leitrim, notes editor Jackie Small.
Source for notated version: fiddler Jim Mulqueeny [Breathnach]; the music manuscript collection of Irish cleric James Goodman, an uilleann piper who collected primarily in County Cork in the mid-19th century.
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ V), 1999; No. 209, pp. 98-99. Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 92, p. 40.
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