Billy from Bruff

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 Theme code Index    5L3b17bL 5L3b15
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Jig/Quadrille
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Dorian
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AABBCCDD
 Editor/Compiler    P.W. Joyce
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 37, p. 21
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1909
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


X:1
T:Billy from Bruff
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air and Jig
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs  (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Ador
E|EAB cBc|AdB GAB|EAB cBc|Aee e>cA/G/|
EAB cBc|AdB GAB|Aag ede|cAA A2:|
|:A|Aab aga|ega gdB|Aab age|def g2 d/B/|
Aab aga|ede gab|age dgB|cAA A2:|
|:c/d/|efe dcB|cAG EGB|AGA cBc|dcd e2 c/d/|
efe dcB|cAG G2 e/g/|age dgB|cAA A2:|
|:c/d/|eag a2e|gfe dBG|eag aef|gdB G2 c/d/|
eag aef|g/f/a/g/e/f/ gab|age dgB|cAA A2:||






BILLY FROM BRUFF. Irish, Jig and Air. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. "From Jack Sheedy: a very old man: 1849. Bruff in Co. Limerick" (Joyce).

Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 37, p. 21.

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