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The Irish Traditional Music Tune Index

Tune ID#595 (Fairy Lullaby)

Basic musical information on this tune.
Type ?
Song

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

Fairy Lullaby, The /:lga; A Bhean Úd Thíos (texts vary in part across sources; O'Neill's transcription A Lullaby / Shuheen Sho in IMM, included here, is musically only similar)

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Discography

Here are all recordings of this song – considering only the indexed recordings.

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Year Recorded	Track #Tune?	[Album code] Artist. Title (Link to Album Info page). Performers (instruments).
~1951	8#1	[AL] World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Ireland. Maire O'Sullivan.
~1951	1.9#1	[AL2] The New Demesne. Field Recordings Made by Alan Lomax in Ireland, 1951. Elizabeth Cronin.

Bibliography

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

Listing of published transcriptions of this tune.
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 only the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1913

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