Bláth Donn Is Bán

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Theme code Index	113 1H77
Also known as	Brown and White Blossom (The), Brown and White Garland (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	3 flats
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Donal O'Sullivan with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland
Tune and/or Page number	No. 132, pp 189-190
Year of publication/Date of MS	1840
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BLÁTH DONN IS BÁN (The brown and white blossom/garland). Irish, Air (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. There are no words extent for this air which Edward Bunting states is related to "that peculiar class" of melodies called 'Lunigs' in Scotland and 'Lobeens' in Ireland, which appear to be folk songs sung first by a single voice followed by a repetition of the tune by a chorus (see "Luibin"). "The setting given here (in his 1840 collection), which is that of the air as popularly sung, seems irregular in the transposition of the first four bars, which ought to occupy the place of the second four, and vice versa, to make the arrangement correspond with the model on which Irish melodies are generally constructed."

Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting obtained the melody from another collector, George Petrie, in 1839.

Printed source: O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 132, pp. 189-190.

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T:Bláth Donn is Bán
M:3/4
L:1/8
S:Bunting (1840)
K:Eb
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