Black Headed Dearie

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 * Tf4g2 a4b2|Tg4f2 e2d2c2|f2e2d2 g2f2e2|a2g2f2 e2d2c2|

 BLACK HEADED DEARIE ("Ceann Dubh Dilis" or "Cean Dub Oilir"). AKA - "Black Haired Darling." AKA and see "Auld Jew (The)," "Old Jew (The)," "Love and the Novice," "Irish Round (The)," "Kennington Wells." Irish, Air or March (3/4 or 6/8 {"airily"} time). D Mixolydian (O'Sullivan/Bunting): D Major (O'Neill): D Minor/Dorian (O'Neill): E Minor (Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (most air versions): AAB (Gow, O'Neill--march version). This beautiful air is thought to have been composed in Ireland during the first decade of the 17th century or earlier, and early versions were often set in a minor key (though the great Irish collector Edward Bunting maintains "it was sung by the peasantry to this day" {i.e. around 1840} in the mixolydian mode). In England it was known as "Irish Round (The)" or "Kennington Wells" and was printed by Playford in the 1713 edition of his Dancing Master (pg. 146); in Scotland it was called "Auld Jew (The)." In addition to the printed sources listed below, Bunting finds the tune in a "small collection of Irish airs, published about 1726 by Neal, of Christ Church Yard, Dublin...and by Burke Thumouth as well as Oswald in his Caledonian Pocket Companion." O'Neill (Music of Ireland) prints the air in major and minor keys and then renders the tune as a major key march. Source for notated version: the index to the Irish collector Edward Bunting's 1840 collection states the piece was noted from "T. Conlan in 1831."

"Sources in Print:'' Brysson (Curious Selection of Favourite Tunes), No. 19{a} (appears as "The Old Jew"). D'Urfey (Pills to Purge Melancholy), volume II, No. 14 (appears as "A Consolatory Ode to Her Majesty"). Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 30 (3rd ed. Appears as "Ceann Dubh Dileas"). Holden (Collection of Old-Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes), volume II, No. 13 (appears as "Ceann Dubh Deelish"). McFadden (Repository of Scots and Irish Airs), c. 1796. Neal (Collection of the most Celebrated Irish Tunes), 1724; p. 16 (appears as "Can dubh dilish"). O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. 1), c. 1805; pp. 34-35 (appears as "Curra Koun Dilish"). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; Nos. 453, 454 & 1836, pp. 79 & 345. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 101, pp. 146-148. Stanford-Petrie (Compete Collection), 1905; No. 1062. Thompson (Hibernian Muse), No. 20 (appears as "Curri Kown Dilich"). Walker (Historical Memoires of the Irish Bards), No. 31 (appears as "Cur do cheann dilis -- Lay the dear head"). Wright (Aria di Camera), No. 62 (appears as "Can dubh dilich"). Recorded source: RCA 09026-61490-2, The Chieftains - "The Celtic Harp" (1993). X:1 T:Black Haired Darling T:Black Headed Dearie L:1/8 M:6/8 N:"Airily" S:O'Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 453 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A/A/Bc ddg|f>ef/g/ fed|cAg fed|cAd D2 D/E/|FF/G/A/B/ cAA|d>ef/g/ fed| cBA/G/|FDD D3||dd/e/f/g/ a2a|aag f2e|f/f/fg a2g|fef D2 D/E/| FF/G/A/B/ cAA|dd/e/f/g/ f>ed|cBA/G/|FDD D3|| X:1 T:Ceann Dubh Dileas M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Slow Air N:"Irish" B:Gow - 2nd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, 3rd ed., pg. 30 (orig. 1788) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Emin "tr"B2d e2f|~g>ag {g}f2e|dBg {g}"tr"f2e|{e}dBe E2"tr"F|G>AG dBd|(e/d/)e/f/g/a/ {g}"tr"f2e| {e}d{c}B{A}G A>cB/A/|{A}GEE ~E2:||g2"tr"a b2c'|bag fed|~g.f.e .a.g.f|.b.a.g .f.e.d| g2"tr"a b2c'| bag f/g/e/f/d|(3g/a/g/ (3f/g/f/ e (ea/b/a/ (3g/a/g f|/b/a/g/ (3f/g/f/ (3e/f/e/ d|"tr"b(c'/b/)(a/g/) "tr"a(b/a/)(g/f/)| "tr"g(a/g/)(f/e/) (f/a/)(g/f/)(e/d/)|"tr"b(c'/b/)(a/g/) "tr"a(b/a/)(g/f/)|"tr"g(a/g/)(f/e/) (f/a/)(g/f/)(e/^d/)| eEE "tr"E>FG|"tr"G>AB B^cd|dDD D>EF|"tr"G>AB B^c^d|eEF ~G>AB|"tr"B>AB E3||

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