Annotation:Duke's Retreat

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 DUKE'S RETREAT. AKA and see "Number One." English, Irish?, Hornpipe or Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This tune is a version of the English hornpipe or reel printed by Frank Kidson in his Old English Country Dances (p. 23), where it appears under the title "Number One." Kidson had the tune (which he labelled a 'country dance tune') from an un-named manuscript in his possession that had been set down in Northumberland around 1816, "by some person residing in Darlington or in the north" (as there was a Darlington printers label inserted into the book).  Source for notated version: fiddler Alec Kerr of Laharn, County Antrim, who recorded for Breathnach in 1969 [Breathnach]. Number.

 Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 313 (appears as untitled hornpipe). O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 103.  Recorded sources:

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