Begone Dull Care
X:1 T:Begone dull care M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Air Q:"Slow" B:Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (vol. 4, 1796, No. 173, p. 65) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|d3e3|f3-f2g|a>ba gfg|f3-f2A|d3e3|f3-f2g/g/|f>gf ede|d3-d2:| |:f/g/|a2a a2f|g2g g2e|f2f fed|!fermata!f3 e2A/A/|d3e3|f3-f2g|f>gf ede|d3 d2:|]
X:1
T:Begone Dull Care
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Edward Riley – “Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 2” (New York, 1817, No. 39, p. 11)
F: https://archive.org/details/flutemelodies0000rile/page/n10/mode/2up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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|:f/g/|a2a a2f|g2g g2e|f2f (fed)|e3 zAA|d3 e3|f3z2g|fgf ede|d3z2:|
X:1
T:Be gone dull care
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Elias Howe – Second Part of the Musician’s Companion (1843, p. 8)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
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X:2
T:Be Gone Dull Care
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Howe - Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon (1843)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:C
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|: e/f/ | g2g g2e | f2f f2d | e2e [eg][df][ce] | d2 z2 GG | c3d3 | e3 z2f | efe dcd | c3 z2 :||
X:52
T:Begone Dull Care edited
O:No 52 Wm Clarke MS Feltwell, Norfolk (1858)
N:Song
N:Bars 2, 4 + 6:: extra quaver rests removed
N:Bars 3 + 7: middle of triplets changed to semiquavers
N:bar 15 + 17 rests values adjusted
Z: transcribed by Lyn Law
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:D
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X:1
T:Dull Care
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection
N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Crossmolina, County Mayo), a musically literate
N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873.
S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of
S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology,
S:2007, p. 15. Carolan ms. 1, No. 41
K:G
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