Lovely Bannion

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 Theme code Index    5531 5551H
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Highland
 Key/Tonic of    D
 Accidental    1 sharp
 Mode    Mixolydian
 Time signature    2/2
 History    
 Structure    AB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Joe Reavy
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy (The)
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 122, p. 136
 Year of publication/Date of MS    n.d.
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
 Score   ()   


Lovely Bannion: Annotations


X: 1
T:Lovely Bannion
R:Highland
C:Ed Reavy
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Joe Reavy
N:A very quaint modal highland.
N:Ed says it is not his tune,
N:but he has been wrong before.
N:It has the earmarks of a Reavy tune:
N:surprising accidentals, unusual
N:cadences, and a brilliant
N:matching of the two parts.
N:I have never heard anyone
N:but Ed play it.
K:Dmix
FG|ABAG F<DDG|ABAG A<dd^c|ABAG FGAB|cAFA G2 FG|
ABAG F<DDG|ABAG A<dd^c|A2 BG FGAB|cAFA G2 FG|
Adde fde^c|Adde f2 e^c|Adde fed^c|AB=cA G2 FG|
Adde fde^c|Adde f2 fg|(3agf (3gfe fde^c|AB=cA G2||

Lovely Bannion: Annotations