| Title | Lament of the Aran Fisherman | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternate titles | I will raise my sail black, mistfully in the morning | |||
| Composer | Traditional Irish | |||
| Instrumentation | Flute solo |     | ||
| Key | G major | |||
| Range | E4–G5 | |||
| Time signature | 3/4 | |||
| Tempo | 100 BPM | |||
| Performance time | 0:30 | |||
| Difficulty level | easy | |||
| Download printable score | PDF Sheet Music (54 kB) (preview) | |||
| Download audio tracks | MIDI (change tempo/key) MP3 (247 kB) | |||
| Date added | 2020-04-09 | |||
| Last updated | 2020-04-09 | |||
| Download popularity index |   0.5 (below average) | |||
| Categories |
Slow airs, Traditional/Folk | |||
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This air is taken from Francis O'Neill's collection Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody, published in Chicago in 1922. O'Neill notes: “Mr. Francis E. Walsh of San Francisco noted this air from the singing of Seamus Moriarty, a native of Kerry. The verses bewailed the drowning of a fisherman”.
