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Bella Bailie
Song Cycle, 'Antrim and Donegal'
The Two Houses; The Little Son; Hush Song; Herrin's in the Bay
ORCHESTRA
An Irish Symphony
SIR HAMILTON HARTY has brought into this work some reminiscences of his youthful days in the north of Ireland, and has used one or two native themes in it. He has given us a description of the scenes he had in mind in writing each of the four Movements of the Symphony.
The FIRST MOVEMENT is entitled on the Shores of Lough Neagh.Â

The principal subject is adapted from the traditional song Avenging and bright. The second tune hints at an old ballad called The Croppy Boy.
SECOND MOVEMENT. The Fair Day.Â

This Movement is in the shape of an Irish reel derived from a merry stune called Blackberry Blossom. with which alternates the marching tune An Spailpin Fanach (The Wandering Labourer), better known in this country as The Girl I Left Behind Me.
THIRD MOVEMENT. In the Antrim Hills.
Here are memories of a ' wake ' and the lament of the mourners for a dead girl.
The lament is based on a sad tune, Jemmy moveela sthor - a girl's 'sorrowful moan' for her absent lover. A second tune is more tranquil. The general mood of the Movement is not so much tragic as dreamy and wistful.
FOURTH MOVEMENT. The Twelfth of July.
This is the day on which 'all the Protestant North celebrates the Battle of the Boyne.' We have a vivid depiction of the drums and flutes, of the quarrelling and fighting. A funeral procession passes bearing the body of the girl of whose 'wake' we had a remembrance in the third Movement. The chief tune is 'The Boyne Water.'