I Have No Desire for Mirth

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 Theme code Index    52H7b5 7b7b7b5
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Air/Lament/Listening Piece
 Key/Tonic of    F
 Accidental    3 flats
 Mode    Dorian
 Time signature    6/8
 History    
 Structure    AB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Charles Villiers Stanford
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Airs (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 697, p. 175
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1905
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
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I Have No Desire for Mirth: Annotations


X:1
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T:I have no desire for mirth
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
S:Henry Hudson manuscript collection, May, 1842 (Dublin, No. 319)
N:Hudson was a Dublin dentist and an early collector. He was 
N:music editor of The Citizen or Dublin Monthly Magazine from 
N:1841-1843.
F: http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-2/#page/7/mode/1up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Dmin
G/|A>d e>d|c>=B {B}A>G|c3 z/=B/|A>d d>e|
d>c c>=B|A>G E>D|D3z/||A/|A>=B d>e|=B>A B>^c|
d3 z/d/|f>f ed|dc A>G|A>G E>D|D3z/||
X:1
%
T:I have no desire for mirth
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 697
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Fdor
B | c2f g2f | e2d c2B | e3 e2d | e3 c2B | 
c2f g2f | f2e e2d | c2B G2F | F3 F2 || 
c | c2d f2g | e2d c2d | d2c d2e | f3 f2f | 
a3 g2f | f2e c2B | c2B G2F | F3 F2 || 

I Have No Desire for Mirth: Annotations