Annotation:Isle of Skye (2)

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 ISLE OF SKYE [2]. AKA and see "Planxty George Brabazon (2)." Scottish, Scottish Measure. D Major (Carlin, Gow, O'Farrell): G Major (Hardings). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Carlin, Gow): AABB (Hardings, O'Farrell). "Isle of Skye" is the Scottish name for the Irish planxty called "George Brabazon," composed by the blind harper Turlough O'Carloan (1670-1734). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of a tune by this title in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 7). O'Farrell (c. 1806), obviously not aware of the O'Carolan connection, lists the tune as "Scotch." Early printings of the melody can be found in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) and in James Aird ('Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Tunes, vol. IV), 1796; p. 60. A different tune by this name appears in Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2, 1760 (p. 84), and in the Frobisher Manuscript (1793, p. 35).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 76. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 10. Hardings All Round Collection, 1905; No. 91, p. 29. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; p. 45. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. II), c. 1806; p. 125.  Recorded sources: Rounder 7002, Graham Townsend--"Le Violin/The Fiddle."

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