Key of A

The Four Courts

O’Neill 1903 no. 1397

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Sheet Music for "The Four Courts"The Four Courts Sign333330545404242054540424524540424204520524520425520440522404024205205245233350245024550404024545754045205245200400040004024520040004052052452 Sign0040004000402452004000240542452Book: O'Neill's 1397Notes:"No. 2" "collected by Cronin"

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X:1397
T:The Four Courts
M:C|
L:1/8
N:"No. 2" "collected by Cronin"
B:O'Neill's 1397
K:A
e"   Sign"d|((3cdc) Ac ((3BcB) Ad|((3cdc) Ac BcdB|((3cdc) Ac ((3BcB) Ac|dfed BcdB:|
|: e3 g       fddf      | ecce       dBBc| Acef g2 fe | dfed BcdB:|
|: a2 ((3efg) a2 ((3efg)|a>aec Ac ((3efg)| agab agec  | dfed BcdB:|
   eAcA       eAcA      | eAcA       BcdB| eAcA eAcA  | dfed BcdB |
   eAcA       eAcA      | eAcA       BcdB| eAcA e2 ef | gedc Bcd"   Sign"B||
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Questions about The Four Courts

  • The Four Courts is in A, in C| time. The A major scale gives you every note it uses.

  • Easy. 99% of the notes fall in first position, between the open string and the fifth fret, and the highest fret used is 7.

  • The tune type is not recorded in the source collection.

  • Yes. Copy the ABC below into the ABC transposer, move the transpose control by semitone, and the notation and tab are redrawn together in the new key. Handy if a singer wants it lower or the tune sits awkwardly on the neck.

  • Yes. Tenor banjo, mandolin and octave mandola are all tuned GDAE, so the tab above is identical for all three. A bouzouki tuned GDAD needs the top string adjusting, which the converter handles.

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