Origins: Catha Rony

Subject: Origins: Catha Rony
From: janbo
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 02:58 AM

Am trying to find out what or who "Catha Rony" is-found the tune in George Petrie's Complete Irish Music, but are no lyrics.

Subject: RE: Origins: Catha Rony
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 03:14 AM

Here's the entry from Fiddler's Companion:

CATHA RONY. Irish, Air (6/8 time). Ireland, County Louth. A Flat Major. Standard. AB. Source for notated version: "A count of Louth air from James Tighe" [Stanford/Petrie]. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 713, pg. 179.

X:1
T:Catha Rony
M:6/8
L:1/8
N:"A county of Louth air."
S:Stanford/Petrie (1905), No. 713
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion

K:A_
A/B/ | cAF A2F | A2A A2 A/B/ | cAF A2F | E2E E3 | c>Bc e2e |
f>ec c2e | fec B>AB | A2A A2 || A/B/c/ | d2 c/B/ c2 B/A/ | F2E E2 A/B/c/ |
d2 cB c2 B/A/ | F2E E3 | c>Bc e2e | fec c2e | fac B>AB | A2A A2 ||

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