![]() ![]() In this spirit of hope the 'Blackbird' name was applied after the Old Pretender to the later James II and, in the 19th century, to Charles Stewart Parnell. BLACKBIRD MELODY PDF MACCaoimhin Mac Aodha points out that the image of the blackbird, An Lon Dubh, is that of a melodious harbinger of joy in Irish folklore, unlike the raven, crow, rook or jackdaw, which are all associated with death and misfortune. So well understood was the nickname The Blackbird as applied to James I, Flood says, that the Jacobite Earl of Thomond, in 1704, had a horse of that name. Other sources date the words from the war of 1688–90. 1707 in praise of the Old Pretender, according to Grattan Flood (1906), who found reference to it as early as 1709 and who noted its printing by Allan Ramsay in 1724 in his Tea Table Miscellany (Ramsey records that he took the song down from an Irish participant who took part in the 1715 revolt). The original song from which the instrumental versions take the title was written c. AB (Moylan): AAB (Johnson, Kennedy, Raven, Roche): AABB (Allan, Breathnach, Cranitch, Mulvihill, O'Farrell, O'Neill ): AABCBC (Roche). D Major (Allan, O'Neill/1850): D Major/Mixolydian (Cranitch, Moylan, Mulvihill, O'Neill/1001): D Mixolydian (Breathnach, Johnson, Kennedy, Kerr, O'Neill/1915 & Krassen, Raven, & Roche). ![]() Irish, English Slow Air, Set, Long or Country Dance (4/4 time), Reel, Hornpipe. AKA and see " Once on a morning of sweet recreation," " Bonny Lass of Aberdeen (The)." See " Napoleon Crossing the Rhine" for an American version of the same tune. ![]()
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