Name: Danny Boy (arr. Kevin Riley) by Trad Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Kevin Riley
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Danny Boy (arr. Kevin Riley)
by Trad String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Danny Boy (arr. Kevin Riley)

Artist Trad

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Trad

Arranger Kevin Riley

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 12

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher Kevin Riley

Level 3

Product ID 1593217

Genre Traditional

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

In 1910, in Bath, Somerset, the English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly initially wrote the words to "Danny Boy" to a tune other than "Londonderry Air". One story is that his sister-in-law Margaret Enright Weatherly (AKA "Jess") sent him a copy of "Londonderry Air" in 1913 and Weatherly modified the lyrics of "Danny Boy" to fit its rhyme and meter. A different story has Jess singing the air to Weatherly in 1912 with different lyrics. Yet another story is that Frederic did not set the poem to any tune, but that, in 1913, Margaret, who, with her husband Edward Weatherly, was living at the Neosho mine near Ouray, Colorado in the US, set it to the "Londonderry Air" which she had heard as a child in California played by her father and other Irish railway workers.

Weatherly gave the song to the vocalist Elsie Griffin, who made it one of the most popular songs of the new century. Ernestine Schumann-Heink produced the first recording of "Danny Boy" in 1915.

Jane Ross of Limavady is credited with collecting the melody of "Londonderry Air" in the mid-19th century from a musician she encountered

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