Annotation:Slán agus beannacht le buaidhreamh an tsaoghail (1)

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X:1 T:Farewell to My Troubles T:Slán agus Beannacht le Buaidhreamh an tSaoghail [1] M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 961 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A | dec dcA | GFG AFD | FEF GFD | FGA c2A | dec dcA | GFG AFD | F3 G2 A/G/ | FDD D2 :| |: G | FED FGA | cdB =cAG | A=fe dec | ABc d2c | BGB d=cA | GFG AFD | F3 G2 A/G/ | FDD D2 :|]



SLÁN AGUS BEANNACHT LE BUAIDHREAMH AN TSAOGHAIL [1]. AKA and see "Farewell to the Troubles of the World," "Farewell to My Troubles." Irish, Jig (“gaily, but not so fast as jig time”). D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The title is a recurrent phrase of several songs to the air. Bayard believes the duple-time "O'Connell's Welcome To Parliament (1)" to be a major mode version or derivative of this tune. Sean O Boyle (1976) notes the words to the tune were composed with lines and half-lines alternating in English and Irish, and believes this reflects the bilingual period in the historical process of the supplanting of the Gaelic language in Ireland by English.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - “taken down in 1853 from the whistling of Joseph Martin a native of the county Limerick” [Joyce].

Printed sources : - Joyce (Ancient Irish Music), 1890; P.W. J. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 961. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; Nos. 1462, 1463, and 1478.

Recorded sources: -



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