Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 595 (Fairy Lullaby)

Type
Song
Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Fairy Lullaby, The (compare O'Neill's transcription A Lullaby / Shuheen Sho in IMM)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here is the sole recording of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19518#1[AL] various. World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland. View album details

Bibliography

Here are transcriptions of this song – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order.

On page 116 of [IMM] Francis O'Neill. Irish Minstrels and Musicians. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1913
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