Annotation:Cuckoo's Nest (14) (The)

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X:1 T:Cuckoo’s Nest [14], The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Straight and Skillern – Two Hundred and Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (c. 1775, No. 109, p. 55) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmin AG|FEFD f2 ed|cAFA B2 AG|FEFD CcBc|c2 G4 AG| FEFD fefd|cAFA BABG|FEFD CDEF|F2D4:| |:A2|d^cde fefd|c2A4 A=B|cBcd edec|c2G4 AG| FEFD fefd|cAFA BABG|FEFD CDEF|F2D4:| |:FG|AFDF AFDF|(3AGF (3FED D2 EF|GECE GECE|(3GFE (3FED C2 AG| FEFD fefd|cAFA BABG|A/G/F/E/ G/F/E/D/ CD EF/G/|F2D4:|]



CUCKOO'S NEST [14], THE. English, Irish, Scottish; Hornpipe (whole time). D Major (O'Connor): Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (O'Connor).


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection[1] (c. 1909, Oriel region, south Ulster) [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 1, p. 119.






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  1. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.