Croppy Boy (1) (The)

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Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	F
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Charles Villiers Stanford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Airs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 605, p. 152
Year of publication/Date of MS	1905
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CROPPY BOY [1], THE. Irish, Air (6/4 or 3/4 time). G Major (Joyce): F Major (Stanford/Petrie). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. This air has "been sent to me during the last seven or eight years by Mr. Patrick O'Leary of Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, a good amateur musician with a great knowledge of the popular airs of that part of Ireland. Most of these he wrote down from his own memory" (Joyce). Petrie notes he obtained his version of the air from Joyce.

Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 300, p. 141. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 605, p. 152.

X:1
T:The Croppy Boy [1]
M:3/4
L:1/8
S:Stanford/Petire (1905), No. 605
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F 
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