Annotation:Feast of the Birds (The)

FEAST OF THE BIRDS, THE. Irish, Slow Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: "...taken down by Forde from 'Paddy Conneely, the Galway piper,' of whom an interesting sketch (with portrait) by Dr. Petrie wo; be found in The Irish Penny Journal, p. 105. To Petrie also he gave many airs which may be seen (with his name) in The Ancient Music of Ireland and in the Stanford-Petrie collection" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 464, p. 259.

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