"Si Bheag Si Mhor"

((An) Shee/Sheebag/Sheebeg/Sí/Sídh/Sidhe/Sighe/TSidh Beag/Beg/Begh/Bheag (Agus) (An/And) (Is) Sheemore/Shemore/Sí/Sidhe/Sighe/TSidh Mhor/Mohr/Mór, The Hills of Habersham, The Bonny Cuckoo.)


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Air, Dmaj, AABBAB (One part (Ó Canainn): AB (Cranitch, O’Sullivan): AABB (most versions)).

FF Type Tune Type Var ABC file FF ABC file FF .ly file
Standards arrangement ABC  pdf ABC  pdf pdf MIDI
Orig History VarABCs FF_ABC FF_Lilypond FF_Snippet

Playing or Personal Notes:

No personal notes.

History

From The Fiddler's Companion;

The air, according to O'Sullivan (1958) and tradition, was probably the first composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). The title of the air often appears as "Sheebag, Sheemore," an Englished version of the original Gaelic "Si Bheag, Si Mhor" which means "so big, so little," but it has been suggested that Si is derived from the medieval Irish siod, meaning "fairy hill" or "fairy mound;" thus the title may also refer to "big fairy hill, little fairy hill."

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