Danny Boy (Weatherly, Frederic Edward)

First Publication	1913
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language; For strings (arr); Scores featuring string ensemble (arr); For horn, trumpet, euphonium (arr); Scores featuring the horn (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); Scores featuring the euphonium (arr); For 3 players (arr)

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Pianoman121 (2019/7/24)

Publisher. Info.	London: Boosey, 1912. Plate 1275-4.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Jurabe (2017/1/18)

Cover Pages
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Jurabe (2017/1/18)

Publisher. Info.	London: Boosey, 1913. Plate H. 8272.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	From the uploader's mother's library. This is from the New Edition of 1918. The accompaniment is not identified other than by OLD IRISH AIR. The fact that the title is not O Danny Boy as is the case elsewhere, but just Danny Boy, should be noted, as is also the librettist's recommendation to alter the phrasing of his poem to adapt to the singer, man or woman, as the case may be.
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Feduol (2020/12/27)

Publisher. Info.	[New York?]: Boosey & Hawkes, 1913/1941. Plate 1270-4.
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Complete Score and Parts
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Elainefine (2019/5/29)

Arranger	Elaine Fine (b. 1959)
Publisher. Info.	Elaine Fine, 2019.
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Complete Score
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Messerman (2021/4/17)

Horn (F)
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Trumpet (B♭)
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Euphonium
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Messerman (2021/4/17)

Arranger	Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt (b. 1944)
Publisher. Info.	Hans Jorgen Messerschmidt, 2019.
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Work Title	Danny Boy
Alternative. Title	Song written to an Old Irish Air
Name Translations	대니 보이; Danny boy; ダニー・ボーイ; 丹尼男孩; داني بوي
Name Aliases	ダニーボーイ; Danny Boy (cantar de Judy Garland); Songbook/Danny Boy
Authorities	WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 294427136
Composer	Weatherly, Frederic Edward
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	None [force assignment]
Key	C major
First Publication.	1913
Librettist	Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848-1929)
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, piano

Weatherly was an English lawyer who wrote the lyrics to at least 3,000 songs. For this one, he set his lyrics to the famous Londonderry Air.
It is frequently considered a ballad, though if the 1913 edition is the first, Weatherly himself did not use that term.
Though one defining feature of folk songs is that their origins are obscure, and they generally have anonymous lyricists. A few modern songs have achieved folk status, though, and Danny Boy is one of these.
See Londonderry Air and Farewell to Cucullain (Kreisler, Fritz) for other versions of this tune.