Annotation:Mrs. Beatty Wallace

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 MRS. BEATTY WALLACE. Canadian, Jig. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. D Major (Cameron): A Major (Perlman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cranford/Fitzgerald): AA’BB’ (Cameron, Perlman). Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976).  Sources for notated versions: Kenny Chaisson (b. c. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resides in Rollo Bay) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton), who reversed the ‘A’ and ‘B’ parts [Cranford].  Printed sources: Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; p. 52. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 89, p. 38. Perlman ('The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 90.  Recorded sources:

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