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Progressive Lessons

a harp source book by Simon Chadwick

 Introduction,  Mailí Bhán,  Féileacán,  Burns’s March,  Tuning,  Further reading

Mailí Bhán
   “1st tune”

This video shows Patrick Quin’s set, taken from the field notation in Bunting ms33(1), and played on a simplified copy of Quin’s “Castle Otway” harp:

Here is a notation showing suggested fingering and damping for Patrick Quin’s version of Mailí Bhán:

My transcription and transposition of Quin's Mailí Bhán marked up for fingering and damping
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This video shows the “Examples of Irish Melody” set, taken from Bunting ms12, and played on a simplified copy of the “Rose Mooney” or “Carolan” harp:

Here is a notation showing suggested fingering and damping for the “Examples” version of Mailí Bhán:

My transcription and transposition of the Exampless Mailí Bhán marked up for fingering and damping
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My source for the tunes on this page is the Bunting manuscripts, which are MS4, Special Collections, Queen’s University Belfast. Full references and facsimiles of the manuscript pages are reproduced with permission in the print edition of Progressive Lessons.

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First published Aug 2008, last updated 17th December 2017