Annotation:Jiggs on Parade

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 JIGGS ON PARADE. AKA and see "Tom Brown's Burletta." American, Jig. USA, southwestern Pa. G Major: D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A fife tune from Pennsylvania. Bayard begs comparison with a slow Scottish marching tune in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1785; vol. 2, No. 3) called "Dundee Volunteer's March (The)."  Source for notated version: Hiram Horner (fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa., 1961) [Bayard].  Printed sources: American Veteran Fifer; No. 30 (appears as "Tom Brown's Burletta"). Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 473, p. 446.  Recorded sources:

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