Molly McAlpin (Carolan's Dream)
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Molly McAlpin", in Gaelic "Mailí Nic Ailpín" or "Maire Ni Mic Alpin", also known as<br> "Molly MacAlpin", "Hawk's Hornpipe", "Hawke's Hornpipe",<br> "Moll Halfpenny/Moll Ha'penny", "Paul Ha'Penny", "Poll Ha'Penny" or<br> "O'Carolan's Dream" is an Irish air, lament or set dance in 4/4 time and A Minor.<br> The parts are played AB or AABB.<br> "Molly McAlpin" is listed as one of Carolan's tunes, but <br> O'Neill (1913) credits the composition of the melody to Laurence O'Connellan,<br> an Irish harper born at Cloonmahon, County Sligo, in the mid-17th century, the<br> younger brother of another famous harper, Thomas O'Connellan (c. 1640/1645–1698),<br> however, most believe it was Thomas who composed the tune.<br> Carolan is reported to have said he would rather have composed "Molly McAlpin"<br> than any melody he himself had composed.<br> It was printed in London in 1719 by Thomas D'Urfey, who got it from an Irish actor,<br> Thomas Dogget, about the year 1700.<br> It was printed in Bunting's General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland<br> (1796),<br> Clinton's Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs (1841),<br> Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858) and<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903).<br>
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