Annotation:Dismissal (The)

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 DISMISSAL, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. The reel was composed by Foot Cape, Cape Breton, musician Sandy MacLean, and appeared in MacQuarrie’s Cape Breton Collection (1940), from which it was picked up by PEI fiddlers as well.  Source for notated version: Peter Chaisson, Jr. (B. 1942, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].  Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 183, p. 69. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 50.  Recorded sources: Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster - "My Roots are Showing" (2000). WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac - "That's What You Get" (1997?). See also listing at Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index.

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