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ROBERT JORDAN. Irish, Air or Planxty (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Donal O'Sullivan (1958) mentions that Belfast collector Edward Bunting noted in his manuscripts: "The only tune composed by Carolan in the style of O'Caghen, wanting 4th." O'Caghen was a harper more famously known as Rory Dall Ó Catháin (O'Kane).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - harper Charles Fanning [Bunting].

Printed sources : - Bunting (A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland), 1796; p. 32. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 66, p. 59. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of and Irish Harper), 1958; No. 66, p. 137.

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