Annotation:Caoinead an Spailpín

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CAOINEAD AN SPAILPÍN ("Wandering Laborer's Lament (The)" or "Spalpeen's Lament (The)"). AKA – "Caoineadh an Spailpín." Irish, Air. Ireland, West Kerry. D Mixolydian/Minor (Mac Amhlaoibh & Durham): G Mixolydian/Dorian (Cranitch): A Mixolydian/Dorian (Ó Canainn). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Cranitch, Ó Canainn): AB (Mac Amhlaoibh & Durham). Mac Amhlaoibh & Durham's version is in 4/4 time, Cranitch's in mixed 4/4 and 5/4 time, and Ó Canainn's in 3/4 time. The subject of the song is the spailpín, or wandering farm laborer, "the most wretched of the many wretched classes in Ireland," according to the Devon Commission of 1843.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Cranitch (The Irish Fiddle Book), 1996; p. 114. Mac Amhlaoibh & Durham (An Pota Stóir: Ceol Seite Corca Duibne/The Set Dance Music of West Kerry), No. 88, p. 50. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 66, p. 59.

See also listing at :
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]

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