The Bold Deserter
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Bold Deserter", in Gaelic "An treigteor dana" is an Irish long dance, set dance or air<br> in 2/4 or 4/4 time and D Major. The parts are played: one part (O'Neill/1915 ed. & 1001,<br> Roche), AB (O'Neill/1850, air version) or AABB (O'Neill/Krassen & 1850).<br> There are eight measures in the A part and twelve in the B part.<br> This version is the melody from the Long Dances portion of O’Neill’s Music of Ireland:<br> 1850 Melodies but set in eighth notes.<br> It is presented in air, long dance and set dance forms in O'Neill's Music of Ireland,<br> slightly different from one another. O'Neill's version in his 1907 Dance Music of Ireland<br> he said was gleaned from a 1796 volume of country dance airs "issued serially by different<br> authors" in London, although he did not identify it further.<br> It was printed in O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) (air - eighth notes),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) (long dance - sixteenth notes),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) and<br> Roche's Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1 (1912).<br>
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