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Theme code Index
5565 5450
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Biography:W.H. Montgomery
Region
England, United States
Genre/Style
English, Minstrel
Meter/Rhythm
Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of
G
Accidental
1 sharp
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
2/4
History
Structure
AABBCC
Editor/Compiler
Biography:William Henry Montgomery
Book/Manuscript title
Book:The Musical Bouquet
Tune and/or Page number
No. 1180
Year of publication/Date of MS
1857
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score 1 )
X:1
T:While I My Banjo Play
C:W.H. Montgomery
M:2/4
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. 87. Carolan ms. 1, No. 269.
K:G
d|dd/d/ dd|ed dB|d(c/B/) ce|d2 zd|dd/d/ dd|
ed dB|d(c/B/) ce|d2 zd|d^c dd|d^c dd|d^c dd|
d^c dd|ed ^cB|BA GF|AG FE|1 D3:|2 D4||
dd/d/ dd|ed d2|d(c/B/) ce|d3d|dd/d/ dd |ed dd|
g(B/c/) dF|1G4:|2 G3||:d|GB GB|d3e|
Be df|g3g|fee e|eG Bd|dc BA|G3:|
