Annotation:Haymaker's Jig (2)

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 HAYMAKERS (JIG) [2]. AKA and see "Foree (The)." Scottish (originally), English, American; Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Hunter, Martin): AABBCC (Gow, Keller, Kerr, Mattson & Walz, McGlashan, Skye). There is a once popular (in 19th century Scotland, for example) country dance called "The Haymakers," with which this tune is associated. The characteristics of the dance indicate its origins can be found in community harvest festivals of the land, similar to the English "Harvester's Dance." The "Hay" (or Hey) was a dance figure and melody known to Shakespeare. The tune is found in the Shetlands, but is not indigenous; rather, it was introduced in the 1890's "by Scots girls who came up in their hundreds during the gerring season to live and work as gutters and packers at the numerous fishing stations which mushroomed each year around the Shetland shoreline. The Shetland jigs, however, appear to pre-date this period" (Cooke, 1986). Kate Van Winkler Keller (1992) says the tune may have been composed by James Oswald for the 1753 London pantomime Fortunatus. It appears in Miss Stewart's Collection of 1781, and James Hulbert's Complete Fifer's Museum (Greenfield, Mass., 1807) among numerous others, both print and manuscript collections-in fact, it was one of the most common tunes of its era.  Source for notated version: the music manuscript of Captain George Bush (1753?-1797), a fiddler and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution [Keller].  Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. 1, 1782; p. 15. Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 445. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; p. 38. Howe (Complete Preceptor for the Accordeon), 1843; p. 6. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 285. Keller (Fiddle Tunes from the American Revolution), 1992; p. 18. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; p. 27. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 169. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 45. Mattson & Walz (Old Fort Snelling... Fife), 1974; p. 67. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 17__; p. 15.  Recorded sources:

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