Blind Guide (The)

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Theme code Index	5L13b3b 4455
Also known as	Caoch Eolaighe (An)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	P.W. Joyce
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 546, pp. 290-291.
Year of publication/Date of MS	1909
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BLIND GUIDE, THE (An Caoch Eolaighe). Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. 'Blind guides' were usually children. The 2nd strain is 10 measures long; the first is eight, making it irregular for dancing.

Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 546, pp. 290-291.

X:1
T:The Blind Guide
M:C
L:1/8
B:Joyce - "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs", No. 546 (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Gdor
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