Annotation:Morning Thrush (The)

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X:1 T:Morning Thrush, The M:4/4 L:1/8 C:James Ennis S:Brian McNamara R:reel D:Piper's Dream - Z:Naka Ishii K:D fag | f2ef d2AF | AdAF Af{g}fe | dAAF DF~F2 | ABdf ef{g}fe | dAAF dAAF | BAFA dADE | {F}EDFA defa |1 {b}afef d:|2 {b}afef d2| |:(3ABc| dgfe fa{b}af | g2{a}ge fgfe | dcde fa{b}af | gefd egfe | dgfe fa~a2 | bfaf ecdB | ADFA defa | {b}afef d2  :| |:(3ABc| dAAF BdAF | D2{GDE}DB ADFA | dF~F2 dFBF | ABdf ef{g}fe | dAAF DF~F2 | BdAF DF~F2 | ABde fagb |1 afef d2:|2 afef d||



MORNING THRUSH, THE (Fuiseog na maidine). AKA - "The Thrush in the Morning." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BBCC'. Composed by James Ennis (1885-1965), father of famed piper Séamus Ennis, in 1913. According to Séamus his father's inspiration was a thrush that sang outside his bedroom window each morning. It won first prize for James in the 1913 Feis Ceoil competition in Dublin for newly composed tunes.


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Recorded sources : - Drumlin Records, Brain McNamara - "A Piper's Dream." RTÉ RTECD 199, Séamus Ennis - "The Return from Fingal" (1997. An archived recording from 1980). Shanachie Records SHA-CD-78039, "The Mulcahy Family" (2000).

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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