Annotation:Isle of Skye (2)
Tune properties and standard notation
ISLE OF SKYE [2]. AKA and see "Planxty George Brabazon (2)." Scottish, Scottish Measure. D Major (Carlin, Gow, O'Farrell): G Major (Hardings). Standard tuning. AAB (Carlin, Gow): AABB (Hardings, O'Farrell). "Isle of Skye" is the Scottish name for the Irish planxty called "George Brabazon," composed by the blind harper Turlough O'Carloan (1670-1734). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of a tune by this title in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 7). O'Farrell (c. 1806), obviously not aware of the O'Carolan connection, lists the tune as "Scotch." The melody appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). A tune by this name (which may or may not be this one) appears in Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2, 1760 (p. 84), in the Frobisher Manuscript (1793, p. 35), and in Aird ('Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Tunes, vol. IV), 1782; p. 60.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 76. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 10. Hardings All Round Collection, 1905; No. 91, p. 29. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; p. 45. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 125.
Recorded sources: Rounder 7002, Graham Townsend--"Le Violin/The Fiddle."