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planxty Irish Music.|ˈplæŋkstɪ|
Also 8 plangstee, plansty.
[Derivation unknown. App. not native Irish, see Petrie, Ancient Music of Ireland (1855) 13–15. (Some suggest its formation in some way from L. plangĕre to strike, beat.)]
‘A harp tune of a sportive and animated character, moving in triplets. It is not intended for or often adaptable to words, and is slower in pace than the jig’ (Stainer and Barrett).
1790J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 6 I'd make him chaunt a solemn drimmundub Or jocund plangstee, pæan or quaint air. 1807Edin. Rev. X. 47 He..leaves at every hospitable mansion..a planxty, celebrating the virtues, charms, or high descent of the hostess. 1825T. C. Croker Fairy Leg. 288 He could play jig and planxty without end. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xix, Dick Dawson was whistling a planxty and eyeing his man. 1855G. Petrie Anc. Music Irel. 13 Of the Planxty and the Pleraca..the difference seems to me to be only in names which are convertible... In a collection of Irish tunes, chiefly of Carolan's composition, published..in 1810, the term Planxty [is] given as the English name, and Pleraca as the Irish one of the same tune... The tunes called Planxties, as well as those called Pleracas, owe their origin, if not, as I believe, their names to Carolan [died 1738]. 1904Daily Chron. 17 Mar., All last night they danced in Caxton Hall..—slip jigs, reels, and planxties, and never a foreign dance among them! |