Annotation:Jack's Alive (1)

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 JACK'S ALIVE [1] (Tá Neaic Beo). English, Irish; Reel. England; Northumberland, Dorset. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A duple-time setting of the tune often rendered as a jig (see "Jack's Alive (3)"). Trim's Thomas Hardy MS. version is very much simplified as it is in the 19th century Joseph Kershaw Manuscript. Kershaw was a fiddle player who lived in the remote area of Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, who compiled his manuscript from 1820 onwards, according to Jamie Knowles.  Source for notated version: fiddler and uilleann piper Stephen Grier (Farnaght, County Leitrim), who wrote down his tunes in the 1880's [Breathnach].  Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 116, p. 60. Hall & Stafford (The Charlton Memorial Tunebook), 1974; p. 8. Knowles (Joseph Kershaw Manuscript), 1993; No. 41. Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 80. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 187. Trim (Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 11.  Recorded sources:

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