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Sheet Music for "Mrs. Waller"Mrs. WallerBook: John Lee – “A Favourite Collection of the so much admired oldIrish Tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan”(Dublin, 1780, pp. 11-12)Transcription: AK/Fiddler’s Companion



MRS. WALLER. Irish, Air or Planxty (whole time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). O'Sullivan (1958) calls this an "exceptionally tortuous piece." The subject of the piece. according to O'Sullivan, may be Miss Jane Ormsby, who married Rober Waller of Rockwood, County Roscommon. He became High Sheriff of the country in 1747. See also Carolan's "Mr. Waller."


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Printed sources : - Broderip & Wilkinson (A Favourite Collection of the so much Admired old Irish Tunes, the Original & Genuine Compositions of Carolan the Celebrated Irish Bard), London, c. 1804; No. 26, p. 10[1]. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 166, p. 112-113. John Lee (A Favourite Collection of the so much admired old Irish Tunes, the original and genuine compositions of Carolan), Dublin, 1780; pp. 10-11. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 166, p. 190. Samuel, Anne & Peter Thompson (The Hibernian Muse), London, 1787; No. 70, p. 44.






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  1. This appears to be a plagiarized reissue of Lee’s or Mulhollan's volumes, without the names of tunes, only numbers.
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