Annotation:Irish Frolic (The)

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 IRISH FROLIC, THE. Irish, Slip Jig. A Mixoldyian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears as an untitled slip jig in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann IV (1996, No. 37), from the Stephen Grier manuscript. Grier was a piper and fiddler from County Fermanagh whose manuscript dates from the early 1880's. Breathnach finds the tune cognate with "Up wi't Ailly Now" in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selections (1782).  Source for notated version: Stephen Grier ms. (Co. Leitrim, c. 1880's) [Breathnach].  Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 37, p. 21 (appears as "Gan Ainm").  Recorded sources:

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