Give Me Your Hand
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Give Me Your Hand", in Gaelic "Tabhair domh do Lámh", also known as<br> "Oh, Give Me Your Hand" is an Irish air or waltz in 6/8 time and G Major/Mixolydian<br> (Brody, Matthiesen, Neal, Oswald) or G Mixolydian (Mallinson, O'Neill, O'Sullivan/Bunting,<br> Tubridy). The parts are played: one part (Brody, Mallinson, Ó Canainn, O'Neill), AB (Tubridy),<br> ABC (Matthiesen) or AABB (Oswald).<br> The index of the Irish collector Edward Bunting's 1840 collection Ancient Music of Ireland<br> gives that the piece was composed in 1603 by Ruainn Dall O'Catháin (d. 1653), or familiarly,<br> Rory Dall (Ó Cathan), originally an Ulster harper who performed and composed primarily in<br> Scotland (the Gaelic appelation ‘dall’ means ‘blind’). Rory Dall is said to also have<br> been an accomplished performer on the bagpipes and was much respected by the Highland gentry.<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Bulmer & Sharpley's Music from Ireland, vol. 1 (1974),<br> Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland (1840),<br> Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 5: Mostly Irish Airs (1985),<br> Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909),<br> Mallinson's 100 Enduring (1995),<br> Matthiesen's The Waltz Book II (1995),<br> Neal's A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Airs (1724),<br> Ó Canainn's Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland (1995),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913),<br> O'Sullivan's Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland (1983),<br> Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 8 (1760),<br> Samuel, Anne & Peter Thompson's The Hibernian Muse (1787),<br> Thumoth's 12 English and 12 Irish Airs (1746),<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999) and<br> Wright's Aria di Camera (1727).<br> It was recorded by Jody Stecher on Snake Baked a Hoecake,<br> Planxty on Planxty Collection and<br> James Galway and the Chieftains on James Galway and the Chieftains in Ireland (1986).<br> I learned this from print although I had heard it a number of times before.<br>
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