Dublin Streets
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dublin Streets", in Gaelic "Sraidide/Sraide Baile átha Cliath" also known as<br> "The Dublin Boys" or "A Fig for a Kiss" is an Irish slip jig in 9/8 time and E Minor.<br> The parts are played AAB (Haverty, Levey, O'Neill) or AABB (Kerr).<br> The name Dublin is derived from the Gaelic dubh linne, or 'the black pool'.<br> The jig appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork<br> uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman, note-for-note the same as<br> Levey's setting.<br> It was printed in Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's),<br> Levey's First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland (1858),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907).<br>
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