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Annotation:Duchess of Rutland's Jig (The)
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DUCHESS OF RUTLAND'S GIGG. AKA and see "Humors of Dublin (3)." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). The name of this tune appears in a list of tunes in an obituary for German-born Jewish hammered dulcimer player biography:Isaac Isaacs, who entertained in Dublin for thirty years in the latter 18th century, and who had an excellent reputation. According to Seán Donnelly[1], an existing tune was re-named for Mary Isabell Manners (1756-1831), "complacent wife" of Dublin's famous madam, Mrs Leeson's favorite client, Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland AKA "Honest Charlie," lord lieutenant of Ireland in the 1780's. Donnelly notes that "The Rutland Jig" was known in County Leitrim in the 20th century, and believes it to have originally been named "Humors of Dublin (3)", as printed by the Neals in Dublin in 1726, and in London by John Walsh in 1733.
- ↑ Seán Donnelly, "A German Dulcimer Player in Eighteenth-Century Dublin", Dublin Historical Record Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), p. 81.
