Annotation:New Lesson (The): Difference between revisions

'''NEW LESSON, THE''' (An Leigeann Nuad). AKA and see "[['Read-a-med-aisy' (The)]]," "[[Reading made Easy (The)]]." Irish, Air (6/8 time, "airily"). D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Read-a-med-aisy = 'reading made easy'. "[[Billy McCormick's]]" is sometimes given as an alternate title, but the jig of that name printed in O'Neill's DMI (1907, No. 341) bears no resemblance.  See also George Petrie's version "[[annotation:Reading made Easy (The)]]," from an 18th century song of seduction entitled "The Turf and Reading-Made-Easy." O'Neill's "New Lesson" title may be an example of his rather Victorian attempts to distance his work from any of the earlier era's salaciousness.