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Sheet Music for "Shilanagary"ShilanagaryJigBook: William Vickers 1770 music manuscript collection Transcription: AK/Fiddler’s Companion



SHILANAGARY. AKA and see "Drunken Parson (The)," "I would but I dare not," "Repley's Delight," "She la negari," "Shilling O' Gairey." English, Jig (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The title is a variation of “Sheela na Gigg/Gig,” the name for one of the Celtic fertility goddesses and, in for a few hundred years, an allegorical name for Ireland. See also “Shee La Na Quira” from Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, "Sheela Ó Gara (1)," "Celia O'Gara" and others.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection (Northumberland) [Seattle].

Printed sources : - Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 275.

Recorded sources: -



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