Annotation:Joy to Great Caesar

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 JOY TO GREAT CAESAR. AKA and see "Farinell's Ground," "King's Health (1) (The)," "Loyal Health (The)." English, Scottish, Irish; Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCCD. "'By Jackson' (?). Written in MS. half minor, half major, but it should evidently be minor" (Joyce). The melody appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), and was previously also published by John Gay in his The Beggar's Opera (1729), and in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. II (1719). Joyce obtained the melody from the Pigot collection.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 727, p. 361. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 69.  Recorded sources:

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