Annotation:Joe Derrane's Composition

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JOE DERRANE'S COMPOSITION. AKA - "Roseland Barndance." Irish, Barndance. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). Composed by Boston button accordion player and teacher Joe Derrane (with whom Jerry O'Brien recorded a few 78's), who called it "Roseland Barndance."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : O'Brien (Irish Folk Dance Music), 1952; No. 245.

Recorded sources: - Green Linnet SIF 1163, Joe Derrane - "Return to Inis Mór" (1995).

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