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T:Cailtlín Ní Uallacháin
T:Kitty Nowlan
M:3/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Bunting - Ancient Music of Ireland (1840, p. 71)
K:Dmin
(3c/d/e/|f2F2fe|d>c A2 c/d/e|Tf3g f/g/a|A4 fe|
dc Ac AG|F2F2 G/A/c|d4 Te>d/4e/4|f4 z2:|]
CAILTLÍN NÍ UALLACHÁIN (Kitty/Katty Nowlan). Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor (Bunting): D Major (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Goodman, Stanford/Petrie): AABB (O'Sullivan/Bunting). Petrie's Music of Ireland (1892, p. 8) contains two variants of this tune along with six verses and notes.
Additional notes
Sources for notated versions: - the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the tune from the harper Charles Byrne (Co. Leitrim) in 1806; "From P. Coneely," the Galway piper [Stanford/Petrie]; James Goodman music manuscript collection [1] (County Cork, mid-19th cent.) [Shields].
Printed sources : - O'Sullivan/Bunting (Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland), 1983; No. 97, p. 141.
Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers, vol. 1), 1999; No. 14, p. 9.
Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 481, p. 121.
Recorded sources: -
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