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Sheet Music for "Green Sleaves(!). WI.002"Green Sleaves(!). WI.002Green Grow The Rushes O,aka. WI.002.Reel (England)Lake District= 100Source: Wm Irwin, 1838 MS, AGG's TranscriptionNotes: AGG says cf Kershaw Green Grows etc but I think the link istenuous..CGPTranscription: vmp.Chris Partington.2005



GREENSLEEVES [6]. AKA - "Green Sleaves". English, Reel (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Green Sleaves" (Greensleeves [6]) was transcribed by early 20th century folklorist Anne Gilchrist from the 1838 music manuscript of Lake District musician William Irwin. Ms. Gilchirst identified his "Green Sleaves" (No. in the Irwin collection) as a variant of "Green Grow the Rushes O", but modern researchers such as Chris Partington and John Offord note that the resemblance is not a strong one to many versions of the latter tune. However, it is quite similar (particularly in the second strain) to Irwin's own version of "Green Grow the Rushes O" (No. 98 in his ms. collection).


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - William Irwin music manuscript collection (1838, Lake District, Cumbria) [Offord].

Printed sources : - John Offord (Bonny Cumberland), 2018; p. 20.






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