James Betagh - Part 1
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"James Betagh" is an Irish air in two parts (cut time & 6/8 time) in G Dorian,<br> composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). The first two parts of the air<br> O'Sullivan prints are in cut time and the second two are in jig (6/8) time. The melody was<br> first printed in John and William Neale's Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1742).<br> O'Sullivan gives that the Betaghs were an old Irish family who had been forced to move from<br> Leinster to Connacht by the Settlement under Cromwell. The tune was composed for James Betagh of<br> Drimhill, who married Fanny Dillon, for whom O'Carolan composed another air. It was a fortunate<br> marriage for Betagh, for he acquired the estate of Mannin, near Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, when<br> Fanny's brother John Dillon died in 1731. <br> It was printed in Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005), O'Sullivan's Carolan:<br> The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958) and Ossian's The Complete Works of<br> O'Carolan (1989).<br> For the second part of "James Betagh" click here.<br> <br> <br>
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