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Annotation:Air (47)
X:1 T:Untitled T:Leitrim Piper M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (1883, Book 3, No. 268) N:Grier entered an identical copy of the tune, untitled, as No. 243, p. 72, Book 3. N:Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally N:from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark, N:Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim. F: https://manuscripts.itma.ie/grier/book-three/ Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G de/f/|gdB GAB|Aag fed|gdB cde|1 dgf g:|2 dgf g2|| g/a/|bgb afd|gfe fdd|bgb afd|gfe dde/f/| gdB GAB|Aag fed|gdB cde|dgf g2||
AIR [47]. AKA - "Leitrim Piper." AKA and see "Cader Idris," "Sweet Jenny Jones." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Air [47]" is an untitled air contained in Book 3 (No. 268) of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper Stephen Grier. Grier entered an identical version of the tune, also untitled, as No. 243, p. 72, Book 3. It was christened "Leitrim Piper" when printed in Breathnach & Small's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 4 (1996) in a nod to their source for the tune, piper Grier. However, the tune is a cognate of the Welsh air "Cader Idris" or "Sweet Jenny Jones."
