TYPE | 2 - Simple Melody |
TUNE STRUCTURE | free time |
VERSE STRUCTURE | not given |
TONAL CENTRE | D |
INCIPIT | GC'D'E♭'D'C'D'C'B♭GFG |
GENRE | Keen |
TEXT SOURCE | Henry Brooke, Jack the Giant Queller (London, 1749) |
TUNE SOURCE | S.C. Hall, Ireland: its scenery, character, &c. (London: How and Parsons, 1843), Vol.3, p.106 |
NOTATED INCIPIT |
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'Mrs Hall's Ireland' as it is colloquially known, is one of a number of nineteenth-century travelogues to have been written during this period. The book details a tour through each of Ireland's 32 counties. |