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The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index

Tune ID#1759 (She Moved through the Fair)

Basic musical information on this tune.
Rhythm ?	Mode ?
Air	G Mixolydian

Titles ? given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):

She Moved through the Fair / She Moves through the Fair (composed by Padraic Colum (text), arranged by Herbert Hughes)

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Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1951	16#1	[AL] World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland. Margaret Barry.
1986	6#1	[Ch JG] James Galway and the Chieftains. In Ireland. James Galway (flute, whistle), Paddy Moloney (pipes, whistle), Seán Keane (fiddle), Martin Fay (fiddle, bones), Matt Molloy (flute, whistle), Kevin Conneff (bodhrán), Derek Bell (harp, tiompán, harpsichord). For this tune: James Galway (flute).
~2007	8#1 (1:14)	[Dingle] The Music of Dingle. Tommy O'Sullivan (vocal).

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune considering only the indexed books, listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are musical matches to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
On page 43 of [L] Alan's private loose music.

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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1951

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