Planxty Burke
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Plaxty Burke", in Gaelic "Pleraca Buaircac" or "Plangstae Bhuaircidh", is an Irish air or<br> planxty in 6/8 time, "animated" and G Dorian played AABBCC.<br> The melody, for which there are no words, was composed by the blind Irish harper<br> Turlough O'Carolan, probably in honor of Thomas Burke of Castlebar, County Mayo, whom<br> O'Sullivan (1983) finds once represented the Borough of Castlebar in King James's Irish<br> Parliament of 1689. O'Carolan also wrote another tune for him that is usually known<br> simply as "Thomas Burke". "Planxty Burke" was popular enough to have been included in<br> several collections through the 18th century, including Neale's Celebrated Irish Tunes (1726),<br> Neale's Collection of Carolan Tunes (1743), Lee's Favourite Collection (1780), Thompson's<br> Hibernian Muse (1786) and Mulholland's Ancient Irish Airs (1810) (where it appears under the<br> title "Planxty McDermot"). O'Sullivan believes that O'Neill's version is copied from Buntings. <br> This version was noted by the Irish collector Edward Bunting from Charles Byrne the harper in 1802.<br> It was printed in Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984), O'Neill's Music of<br> Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), O’Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish<br> Harper (1958) and O'Sullivan/Bunting (1983).<br>
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