Annotation:Beauty in Tears

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BEAUTY IN TEARS. AKA and see "Ash Grove (The)." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Erroneously attributed by O'Neill to blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Donal O'Sullivan, in his exhaustive study of the bard (1958), chose not to include the melody among Carolan's works.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 230.O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 635, p. 113.

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