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Thread #163065   Message #3886775
Posted By: Helen
04-Nov-17 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: Planxty Fanny Power time signature
Subject: RE: Planxty Fanny Power time signature
In Bunting FP is marked "Distinctly and Gracefully". In the Ossian Publication version it says "Grazioso", and Derek Bell's version is marked "Allegro ma non troppo".

In Bunting's three sections of the book only five in the first, eight in the second, and seven in the third are named as a Planxty. There are a large number of Carolan tunes named for people in the whole book so only a handful had the word Planxty as a prefix.

In O'Neill's book, the English version of the surname written above the music is "Powers", but the Irish version does not have an "s" on the end, and neither does the tune name in the index, so I think the added "s" was a typo.

Richard Mellish, thanks for the recommendation of Caitriona Rowsome's book.