a piece of music of a melancholy cast, probably synonymous with L ament (q.v.). In 17th- and 18th-century books of instrumental music the name is occasionally met with as a title to a piece ; for example, ' The Irishe Dumpe ' in the ' Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.' The following is a late instance from S. Holden's A n Irish Dump. mow. i i sSH o o rp-Si t r . o j.-* a 1 - f 1 -ra ET j - - **SH = ___ 4 = rgzj_j . -t'H Collection of Old Established Irish Slow and Quick Tunes, vol. i. It is named 1 An Irish Dump.' An arrangement of this tune to words by Joanna Baillie was made by Beethoven. F. K.