Bicycle (2) (The)

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 Theme code Index    513b1 5144
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Ireland
 Genre/Style    Irish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    E
 Accidental    2 sharps
 Mode    Dorian
 Time signature    4/4
 History    IRELAND(Munster)
 Structure    AABB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:Terry Moylan
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra
 Tune and/or Page number    No. 16, p. 11
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1994
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
 Record label/Catalogue nr.    
 Year recorded    
 Media    
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BICYCLE [2], THE. Irish, Reel. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A reel-time version of the slide "The Bicycle" [1].

Source for notated version: fiddler Denis Murphy (Sliabh Luachra); after Johnny O'Leary played the slide version of "The Bicycle [1]," Denis Murphy, in attendance at the same 1973 Ballydesmond session, demonstrated the reel version [Moylan].

Moylan (Johnny O'Leary), 1994; No. 16, p. 11.

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