Annotation:Pleasant Rocks (The)

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PLEASANT ROCKS, THE (Carraig an aoibhnis). Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Major (Bunting, Clinton): B Flat (O'Flannagan). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. "The Pleasant Rocks" was one of the melodies Thomas Moore employed for a song in his Irish Melodies, vol. 1 (1817).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bunting (General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland), 1796; No. 22, p. 12. Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 158, p. 80. P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; No. 221, p. 107. O'Flannagan (The Hibernia Collection), 1860; p. 32.

Recorded sources: Gael-Linn CEF 047, Ceoltoiri Laighean - "Star of Munster" (1975). Gael Linn Records, Éamon de Buitléar & Ceoltóirí Laighean - "Cnuas" (2010).



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