Annotation:Beautiful Swanee River Hornpipe

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X:1 T:Beautiful Swanee River M:2/4 L:1/8 R:Hornpipe S:Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G (3D/E/F/ | GG/D/ B,/D/G/A/ | BB/G/ D/G/B/d/ | e(e/f/) g/e/d/B/ | e/d/B/G/ A/G/E/F/ | GG/D/ B,/D/G/A/ | BB/G/ D/G/B/d/ | e(e/f/) g/e/d/c/ | B/A/G/F/ G:| |:d/c/|B/G/B/d/ B/G/B/d/|c/A/c/e/ c/A/c/e/|d/B/d/g/ a/g/d/B/|f/e/c/A/ F/D/d/c/| B/G/B/d/ B/G/B/d/|c/A/c/e/ c/A/c/e/|d/g/b/a/ g/f/e/f/|g{a}g/f/ g:||



BEAUTIFUL SWANEE RIVER HORNPIPE. American (originally), Canadian; Hornpipe. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Cole): AA'BB' (Kerr). Composition credited to Harry Carleton in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). Apparently, the tune was picked up by the Scottish editor James Kerr from Ryan's Mammoth Collection (the progenitor of Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes), and from either source it was picked up by Prince Edward Island fiddler MacDonald.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Francis MacDonald, b. 1940 (Morell Rear, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].



Recorded sources : - Rodeo RO-170 (78 RPM), Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald. WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac - "That's What You Get" (1998?).

See also listing at :
Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 107. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 52, p. 20. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 362, pg\. 40. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 60. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 144.



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