View source for Annotation:Jenny Rock the Cradle

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|f_annotation='''JENNY ROCK THE CRADLE.''' AKA and see "[[Charles Leslie]]," "[[Highland Reel (3) (The)]]." Irish, Scottish; Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The reel is contained under the "Jenny Rock the Cradle" title in vol. 2 (p. 152)[http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=155&z=1047.8431%2C1302.5165%2C7429.8284%2C2584.8765] of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper [[wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist)]]. A version of it was printed in Glasgow publisher James S. Kerr's '''Merry Melodies''' as "[[Charles Leslie]]," and Goodman manuscripts researchers Hugh and Lisa Shields[https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/prints.itma.ie/goodman/TMP_Full_index_March_2022.pdf] find a cognate to the first strain in Goodman's own "[[Jack Lattin]]" (vol. 4, p. 96). An earlier version of the reel appears in the c. 1818 collection of Ayrshire fiddler John Hall as "[[Highland Reel (3) (The)]]." 
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"[[Jennie Rock the Cradle]]" is melodically different enough to warrant a separate entry, but also has ties to "[[Jackie Layton]]."  The latter has harmonic and cadential similarities to "Jenny Rock the Cradle," and a similar character.
|f_source_for_notated_version=James Goodman (1828-1896) entered the tune into his manuscript, having obtained it from the music manuscript collections of Seán Ó Dálaigh (John O'Daly, 1800-1878), the great nineteenth-century scribe; compiler and collector of manuscripts; editor; anthologist; publisher of Gaelic verse and stories and founder of societies for the publication of Gaelic literature, best-known today for his volume '''Poets and Poetry of Munster''' (1849). O’Daly was born in the Sliabh gCua area of west Waterford and was, like Goodman, a teacher of Irish.
|f_printed_sources=Hugh & Lisa Shields ('''Tunes of the Munster Pipers vol. 2'''), 2013; No. 659.
|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Jenny_Rock_the_Cradle >
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