REPLY1850
Concolinel.
By J. M. B.
As *Calen O Custore me*, after sorely puzzling the critics, was at length discovered to be an Irish air, or the burthen of an Irish song, is it not possible that the equally outlandish-looking "*Concolinel*" may be only a corruption of "*Coolin*", that "far-famed melody," as Mr. Bunting terms it in his *last* collection of *The Ancient Music of Ireland* (Dublin, 1840), where it may be found in a style "more Irish than that of the sets hitherto published?" And truly it is a "sweet air," well fitted to "make passionate *the* sense of hearing," and melt the soul of even Don Adriano de Armado. Theā¦
Topics: Irish Music, Historical Songs
Locations: Dublin