Annotation:Full Rigged Ship (2) (Da)

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 FULL RIGGED SHIP [2], DA. Shetland, Listening Piece (triple meter). A Dorian. Standard tuning. AABB'CC' (Cooke, Martin & Hughes). Popularized by Tom Anderson, who explains the little hesitations and sudden melodic turns as the motion when a fine sailing ship mounts the ocean swell, pauses and dips its bow again. It is often followed without a break by the reel "New Rigged Ship (2) (Da)" (Cooke).  Source for notated version: Peter Fraser (Walls, Shetland) [Cooke].  Printed sources: Cooke (The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles), 1986; Ex. 39, p. 92. Martin & Hughes (Ho-ro-gheallaidh), 1990; p. 30.  Recorded sources: Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson - "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978).

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