Callino Casturame
Автор: Jim Aman
Загружено: 2025-07-28
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Two versions of a tune which, according to the research by Fleischmann, ÓSuílleabháin, and McKettrick, is the oldest Irish melody ever transcribed.
In "Sources of Irish Traditional Music 1600-1855," they describe it this way:
"In Shakespeare's Henry V, Pistol, on a French battle-field, says 'Yield, cur' to a French soldier whom he has taken prisoner. When the Frenchman says 'Je pense que vous estes le gentilhomme de bonne qualité', Pistol replies 'Quality! Calen o custure me'. This was first thought to be mere gibberish, later discovered to be Gaelic and variously transliterated, until in 1939 Professor Gerard Murphy, of University College, Dublin, identified it as a seventeenth-century song in Irish with the presumed title of 'Cailín ó Chois tSiúire mé' (I am a girl from beside the river Suir). The tune, already referred to above, has survived up to the present time as 'The Croppy Boy' and its quotation in a Shakespearean play proves that it must have been a well-known song in England in the sixteenth century."
H. E. Rollins had it in his 1582 book, "A Handful of Pleasant Delights." William Byrd adapted it slightly as a hymn. Both are recorded here transposed to G from the original C, which drops below the range of the D whistle I used.
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