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X:1 T:South Bridge, The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, B:Oriel region, south Ulster) K:Ador G|EAAE A2 Ac|BAGB dBAG|E....



SOUTH BRIDGE, THE. Irish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. "The South Bridge" is a reel contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan of the Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor identifies "Musical Priest" as a correspondent melody, and also set the tune in the key of A dorian, altered from the original ms. which had no accidentals in the key signature.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 70, p. 53.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.