Annotation:Cailín Gan Chiall

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 CAILÍN GAN CHIALL (A girl without sense). Irish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A close variant of "Bryan O'Lynn [1]." The melody appears under this title in the mid-19th century music manuscripts of Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman (1828-1896). Goodman was an Irish speaker and an uilleann piper who collected from tradition in Cork and elsewhere in Munster, although he obtained tunes from manuscripts and printed sources as well.  Source for notated version: James Goodman mss. [Shields]  Printed sources: Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 398.  Recorded sources:

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