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'''MURRAY RIVER JIG.''' Canadian, Jig. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Ontario fiddler and composer (of some 400 tunes) Graham Townsend (1942-1998), named for a town in Kings County, central Prince Edward Island just east of Belfast. Townsend won the Canadian national fiddling championship at age 21, and made a career of radio and TV appearances, festival bookings and concert tours. | |f_annotation='''MURRAY RIVER JIG.''' Canadian, Jig. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Ontario fiddler and composer (of some 400 tunes) Graham Townsend (1942-1998), named for a small town in Kings County, central Prince Edward Island just east of Belfast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_River,_Prince_Edward_Island]. Townsend won the Canadian national fiddling championship at age 21, and made a career of radio and TV appearances, festival bookings and concert tours. | ||
[[File:townsend.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Graham Townsend]] | [[File:townsend.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Graham Townsend]] | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Gus Longaphie (b. 1914, Little Harbor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Souris) [Perlman]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 141. Whitcomb ('''Canadian Fiddle Music, vol. 1'''), 1990; p. 139. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Graham Townsend - "Thirty Canadian Fiddle Tunes." Arc AS 817, Graham Townsend - "North American Fiddle Champion" (196?). CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - "The 'Reel' Thing" (1994). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t275.html]<br> | |||
Hear a clip of Townsend's recording [http://www.victoriafiddlesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Murray-River-Jig-Graham-Townsend.mp3]<br> | Hear a clip of Townsend's recording [http://www.victoriafiddlesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Murray-River-Jig-Graham-Townsend.mp3]<br> | ||
See a PDF | See a PDF transcriptions [http://calfolk.ca/tunes1/murray-river-jig.pdf] [http://www.nhcountrydance.com/music/fiddle-tunes_pdf_files/Murray%20River%20Jig.pdf]<br> | ||
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MURRAY RIVER JIG. Canadian, Jig. A Mixolydian ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Ontario fiddler and composer (of some 400 tunes) Graham Townsend (1942-1998), named for a small town in Kings County, central Prince Edward Island just east of Belfast [1]. Townsend won the Canadian national fiddling championship at age 21, and made a career of radio and TV appearances, festival bookings and concert tours.
