Buc Seó

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 Theme code Index    7bL7bL 7bL7bL 3b6b 3b1
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    NONE
 Mode    Aeolian (minor)
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Hugh Shields
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Tunes of the Munster Pipers
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 35, p. 16
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1998
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
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BUC SEÓ. Irish, Air (6/8 time, "With spirit"). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title means a showoff or playboy.

Source for notated version: a manuscript collection dated 1861 by the Anglican cleric and piper James Goodman (1828-1896), who collected primarily in County Cork [Shields].

Printed source: Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 35, p. 16.




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