Black Slender Boy (4) (The)

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Theme code Index	354 331
Also known as	Dark Slender Boy, Bouchail Caol Dubh (An)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History	IRELAND(Munster)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	P.W. Joyce
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
Tune and/or Page number	No. 102, p. 52.
Year of publication/Date of MS	1909
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<abc float="left"> X:1 T:Black Slender Boy [4] T:An bouchail caol dubh M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air N:"Slow and with great expression" S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) K:D DE|FG A2 GA/G/|FG/E/ F>E DD/E/|FG A>G EF|DD D2 DE| FG A2 d/>c/A/G/|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2||FG| Ad/>e/ f2 ed|d/e/f/d/ e>d c/A/G/F/|GA/B/ =c2 {A}d/c/A/G/|Ad/>{f}e/ d3 d/e/| fe d>c AG|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2|| </abc>

BLACK SLENDER BOY [4]. AKA and see "Dark Slender Boy." AKA - "An Bouchail Caol Dubh." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Dr. Petrie gives three settings of this beautiful air in his Ancient Music of Ireland: all instrumental. I give here, from memory, the Munster vocal rendering--very much simpler--as I heard it from the old singers hundreds of times" (Joyce).

Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 102, p. 52.

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