Annotation:Emer's Farewell to Cucullain

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EMER'S FAREWELL TO CUCULLAIN. AKA and see "Danny Boy," "Derry Air," "Londonderry Air." Irish, Air (4/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Walker (1924) calls this tune "an emotionally organized design of quite exceptional power."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Walker (History of Music in England), 1924; No. 129, p. 336.

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