Annotation:Planxty Davis
X:1 T:Planxty Davis C:Thomas O'Connelan B:O'Neill's "Dance Music of Ireland", no. 973 Z:Paul de Grae M:4/4 L:1/8 Q:145 K:D FG|A2 AB A2 FG|AFAB A3 B|AGFE DEFG|A2 AB A2 dc| B2 Bd B2 Ac|BABc B2 dB|AGFE DEFA|B2 Bd B2 b2| bafb afeg|fedf e2 de|fedB BAdF|A2 AB A2 dc| B2 AB d2 Bd|e2 de f2 ed|BABc d2 F2|E4 D2:|:fg| a2 ab a2 fg|agab a2 fg|agfe defg|a2 ab a2 fa| b3 b b2 fa|bafa b2 bg|agfe defa|b2 ba b2 fa| bafb afeg|fedf e2 de|fedB BAdF|A2 AB A2 dc| B2 AB d2 cd|e2 de f2 ed|BABc d2 F2|E4 D2:|
PLANXTY DAVIS ("Pleraca Daibis" or "Plearaca Daiti"). AKA and see "Killicrankie (2)," "Battle of Kilicrankie." Irish, Hornpipe or Long Dance (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/Krassen): AABB (O'Neill/1001). "Planxty Davis" is one of the supposed seven or eight hundred compositions of the ancient harper biography:Thomas O'Connellan[1], almost all of which are lost. The melody is occasionally attributed to Turlough O'Carolan, but It is known in Scotland as “Battle of Kilicrankie/Killiecrankie (1).” See also note for “annotation:Breach of Aughrim (The)” for more on O'Connellan.
- ↑ Dates of birth are variously given as 1620, 1625 and 1640, and death as 1685, 1689, 1698 and 1700. Details of his life are similarly contradictory and vague.