Annotation:Woman of the Glen

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WOMAN OF THE GLEN (Bean a'Leanna). Irish, Air (4/4 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Woman of the Glen" is similar to "Boyne Water," especially to that tune's second half. See also Canon James Goodman's "Alewoman (The)"/"Bean an Leanna," a 3/4 time tune collected in the mid-19th century.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Cowdery (The Melodic Tradition of Ireland), 1990; Ex. 40, p. 114.

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