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11 Jul 14 - 07:44 PM (#3641394) Subject: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal From: GUEST,John E Any one know it, and know where I can hear a recording? I am trying to learn it with music I have, but don't think I'm getting the feel for it. Thanks. |
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11 Jul 14 - 08:13 PM (#3641403) Subject: RE: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal From: Jack Campin It's an elaboration of a more familiar 9/8 jig the name of which I forget. Scottish 9/8 jigs tend to all blur together in my head - Hey Ca Thro? Rattlin Roarin Willie? something in that family but I think there's a closer one. Gore's tune index shows it as unique, which has to be wrong. |
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11 Jul 14 - 08:48 PM (#3641408) Subject: RE: Tune Req: scottish slip jig: as black as a coal From: Jack Campin The first strain is more or less the same as "Colonel" (or "The Collonel") in David Young's 1740 collection: http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/YoungBodleian.abc |