Annotation:Foggy Dew (2) (The)

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 FOGGY DEW [2], THE (Drucd an Ceo). AKA and see "Sloan's Lamentation," "Graine Maol (1)," "Granuaile." Irish, Air (4/4 time). G Major (Roche, O'Neill): A Flat Major (O'Sullivan Bunting). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill/1850): AAB (Roche). The tune converts easily to the minor key (see versions #1 & #3). Cazden (et al, 1982) mentions that the tune strain itself came to serve as a symbol of Irish nationalism and was used for a number of "songs of resistance." He finds the earliest printed version to be an 1828 setting of a poem by William Kennedy called "The Irish Emigrant," where it is called an "old Irish melody." Also related to Bunting's melody is a Catskill Mountain (New York) version collected by Norman Cazden (et al, 1982), while another melody printed in Bunting, "Sloan's Lament," is a variant. The Gaelic title for the tune is "Granuaile," for which there is an interesting story (see note for the tune), though it should be noted there are a great many tunes with the title "Granuaile" or its variants in existence.  Source for notated version: the Irish collector Edward Bunting noted the melody from "J. McKnight, Esq., Belfast, 1839."  Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 186, p. 33. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 150, pp. 207-208. Roche (Collection of Irish Traditional Music vol. 3), 1927; No. 45, p. 13.  Recorded sources: DREY 36191, Alan Stivell - "Olympia Concert." Green Linnet SIF 1084, Eugene O'Donnell - "The Foggy Dew" (1988). Green Linnet SIF 1101, Eugene O'Donnell - "Playing with Fire: the Celtic Fiddle Connection" (1989).

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