George Brabazon - Second Air
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slow air / instrumental
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Planxty George Brabazon (Second Air), in Gaelic "Pleraca Seoirse Brabason", is an<br> Irish air in 4/4 time and G Major. The parts are played: one part (O Canainn),<br> AB (Complete Collection, O'Neill/1850) or AABB (O'Neill, Krassen, Skye).<br> According to O'Carolan biographer Donal O’Sullivan, there was no definitive<br> evidence for its being composed by O'Carolan, although stylistically, it would<br> seem to be a composition of his.<br> After the Jacobite rebellion “George Brabazon” was re-titled in Scotland<br> "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye" in honor of <br> Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender).<br> It was printed in Brody's Fiddlers’ Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's Gow Collection (1986) (appears as "Isle of Skye"),<br> Ossian Publications' Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984),<br> S. Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 3: Carolan (1983) (revised 1991, 2001),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887)<br> (appears as "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye"),<br> Ó Canainn's Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland (1995),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> Slater's Clawhammer Banjo Solos (1979),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> O’Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958).<br> It was recorded by The Chieftains on Chieftains II (1969) and<br> The Chieftains Live (1977),<br> Derek Bell on Carolan's Receipt (1975),<br> Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977) and<br> John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977).<br>
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