Annotation:Farewell to Spain

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 FAREWELL TO SPAIN. Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB.  Source for notated version: "(given to Forde by) Patrick MacDowell, R.A., the distinguished sculptor: born in Belfast 1799: died 1870. He gave a great number of airs to Dr. Petrie also, who has published many of them in his 'Ancient Music of Ireland': and many are included in the Stanford-Petrie collection. He was an ardent collector of Irish music, and drew his stores from every part of the country" (Joyce).  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 523, p. 282.  Recorded sources:

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