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from Edward Bunting, Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin 1840)
Irish dofhreagradh spoken by Gráinne Yeats Scottish Gaelic freagairt spoken by Tony Dilworth Click the play button to hear it spoken. help Dofhreagrach - Answering As in Dofhreagrach caomhluidhe, the Gaelic word is clearly a noun (perhaps dofhreagradh) which is not attested elsewhere. On p.32 Dofhreagreach is explained as 'Answering, an octave'. Colm Ó Baoill 2002 Alasdair Codona suggests that ‘dofhreagrach‘ might be a mis-reading of ‘Do. fhreagrach’, i.e. ditto fhreagrach, in a manuscript list of similar terms. This suggestion is supported by the absence of Dofhreagrach in the ms12 chart: it gives ‘freagrach’ as the name of the high d string, though it could also be indicating that all the treble strings are called this name. Simon Chadwick 2008
Click the play button to hear it spoken. help
Dofhreagrach - Answering
As in Dofhreagrach caomhluidhe, the Gaelic word is clearly a noun (perhaps dofhreagradh) which is not attested elsewhere. On p.32 Dofhreagreach is explained as 'Answering, an octave'.
Colm Ó Baoill 2002
Alasdair Codona suggests that ‘dofhreagrach‘ might be a mis-reading of ‘Do. fhreagrach’, i.e. ditto fhreagrach, in a manuscript list of similar terms. This suggestion is supported by the absence of Dofhreagrach in the ms12 chart: it gives ‘freagrach’ as the name of the high d string, though it could also be indicating that all the treble strings are called this name.
Simon Chadwick 2008
