Annotation:Captain White's Jig (1)

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 CAPTAIN WHITE('S JIG) [1]. Irish, English, Canadian; Jig and Country Dance Tune. D Major ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Kerr): AABC (Kennedy, Messer & Raven): AABCC (Miller). Donegal fiddlers play the tune as an untitled single jig, according to Caoimhin Mac Aoidh. It was played, for example, by Mairead ni Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy in the 1980's. A similar jig is in the Fleishman index (6566), originally from a publication by Thomas Mooney called A History of Ireland (Boston 1846), where it is called "Rockeby or Captain Wyake," itself similar to another jig in the same index (5454) called "Lady Pert's Reel or Rockeby," originally from Maurice Hime's Hime's New Collection of Country Dances (Dublin, 1814). There may be some relationship to the first part of "The Belfast Boat" (CRÉ IV, No. 2) and to "Tim Clifford's" or "Micho Russell's."  Source for notated version: a c. 1957 recording of Eugene Leddy's Ceili Band (County Cavan-Leddy {1913-2002}, a dairy farmer and fiddler, founded his band in 1938 and performed throughout Ireland, but was a regular at Cornafean Hall, Cavan) [Miller & Perron].  Printed sources: Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book), vol. 1, 1951; No. 83, p. 41. Kerr (Merry Melodies), c. 1875, vol. 1; No. 9, p. 28. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 76. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; No. 134, p. 88. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 2, No. 58. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, 2nd Edition), 2006; p. 17. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 109.  Recorded sources: Blarney Castle Records BC-507, Eugene Leddy's Ceili Band "Ceili Bands of Ireland" (c. 1957. Various artists) See also listing at: Alan Ng's Irishtune.info.

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