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Thread #28341 Message #351446
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
04-Dec-00 - 08:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Oft in the Stilly Night (Thomas Moore
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: oft in the stilly nights
It's a song from Moore's 'National Airs', and the tune is said to be Scots. I coded the tune (in O'Neil's 'Music of Ireland' #219) and looked it up in Charles Gore's 'The Scottish Fiddle Music Index'. The only tune listed with the right code is a late one called "Stilly Night". So much for Scots.