Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on December 6th 2003 by heike.
This tune has been added to 58 tunebooks.
Also known as Molly MacA Lpin, Molly McAlpin, O Carolan's Dream, O'Carolan's Dream.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Carolan's Dream
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Amin
|: AB |"Am" c2 B>A A2 GA | c2 B>A "G"G2 cd | "C"e2 de dcBA | "F"A4 A2 de|
"Dm" f2 fg "C"e2 ef | "G"d^cde "F"a3 g | "Am"aged "G"dcAG | "Am"A6 :|
|: ef | "C"gede g3 a | "Em"gede g3 e | "Am"agab "G"ageg | "F"a6 ag |
"Dm"f2 fg "C"e2 ef | "G"d^cde "F"a3 g | "Am"aged "G"dcAG | "Am"A6 :|
Not a barndance, of course, but an O'Carolan tune!
I only have this as sheet music I got from a fellow musician; don't know where he got it from.
I added the chords because the F major chord in the forth bar is absolutely beautiful.
I love this tune, maybe one reason being that it is one of O'Carolan's tunes that isn't played too often. And in my mind, it is one of the most haunting and yearning tunes of his. We play it pretty slow, probably 60 = 1/4.
# Posted on December 6th 2003 by heike
Carolan's Dream
In researching this tune for a recording I was making I read that this tune is credited to a man by the name of William Connellan who named it "Molly MacAlpin". It evidently was one of Carolan's favorite melodies. He reportedly said that he would rather have written this tune than any of his own. For what it's worth . . .
# Posted on December 20th 2003 by whitedwarf
O'Carolan gets the credit for this one, but its a harp piece composed by William Connellan- Irish harper who lived in Scotland and this tune became part of the Scottish harp repetoire.
# Posted on February 18th 2008 by poldebrun