Brown Eyed Girl (The)
Brown Eyed Girl (The): Annotations
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| Theme code Index | 3311 5L132 |
| Also known as | Gearrchaile na Samhaircíní, Kilworth Lasses (The), Maids (The), Primrose Lasses, Primrose Girl (2) |
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| Region | Ireland |
| Genre/Style | Irish |
| Meter/Rhythm | Reel (single/double) |
| Key/Tonic of | G |
| Accidental | 1 sharp |
| Mode | Ionian (Major) |
| Time signature | 4/4 |
| History | |
| Structure | AABB |
| Editor/Compiler | Biography:Brendan Breathnach |
| Book/Manuscript title | Book:Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 2 |
| Tune and/or Page number | No. 189, p. 99 |
| Year of publication/Date of MS | 1976 |
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X:1 % T:Brown-Eyed Girl, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel N:A version of “Primrose Lass.” S:”Composed by Michael B. Shanahan, 1865.” S:P.D. Reidy music manuscript collection, London, 1890’s (No. 16) N:”Professor” Patrick Reidy of Castleisland was a dancing N:master engaged by the Gaelic League in London to teach N:dance classes. He introduced “Siege of Ennis” and “Walls N:of Limerick” ceili dances and wrote a treatise on dancing. N:Reidy told O’Neill that his source, Shanahan was a “celebrated N:violinist”, the son of a piper born in Kilrush, Co. Clare, with a N:great reputation in Kerry and Limerick in the 1860’s. It is unclear N:where Shanahan was in relation to his acquaintance with Reidy N:(i.e. in London or Ireland). F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-1/#page/1/mode/1up Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G c2|BcAB GAGE|DEGA BAAc|BcAB GAGE|DEGA B(G G2):| c2|Bdgd edgd|Bdgd eAAc|Bdgd edgd|BdAc BG G2| Bdgd edgd|Begd e(AAB)|Bdef gfed|(Bd)(Ac) B(GG2)||
Brown Eyed Girl (The): Annotations