Popular Ballad Tune
TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
TUNE STRUCTURE | A8 B8 (or aaba 4 bars) |
VERSE STRUCTURE | not given |
TIME SIGNATURE | 34 |
KEY SIGNATURE | ♭♭♭ |
TONAL CENTRE | E- |
INCIPIT | GB♭C'BGE♭EFGC'A♭ |
GENRE | Ballad |
TEXT SOURCE | none |
TUNE SOURCE | George Petrie, The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1855), p.32 |
NOTATED INCIPIT | |
This song has no specific set of words, but rather was a tune commonly used by ballad singers hawking their new songs in the streets of Dublin c.1815. |