L.van Gool wrote:
>
> Dear listers,
>
> I wonder if there were ever words put to the tune "Planxty Kelly"?
>
> I know that "planxty" is a general name for a certain kind of tune but it
> isn't all together clear to me what it really is, is it a kind of jig, or
> slower, has it something to do with a harp?
> I also know that Petrie in his 'Ancient Music of Ireland' wrote about it, so
> my OED tells me, but I don't have the book and cannot look it up.
>
> I would be very grateful if someone among you could enlighten me a bit about
> this.
>
> Greetings from Antwerp, Belgium,
>
> Liesbeth van Gool
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> "one bar of sunlight does them
> all january and half february"
> (FW544.35-36)
Sorry, I forgot to mention that Thomas Moore's "Fly not yet" is to the
tune of "Planxty Kelly".
For a comprehensive index of early published copies of the tune see
"Planxty Kelly" in the Irish tune index on my website. Carolan often
composed tunes for various members of the same family or others with the
same last name, and Donal O'Sullivan often changes the common title in
order to be as unambiguous as possible as to which tune he meant. That
didn't always work, and it also often take some patience to locate the
common title of the tune in O'Sullivan's work.
Bruce Olson
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