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'''GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [2]'''. American, "Country Dance" (6/8 time) or Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was at one time a popular jig among Cape Breton fiddlers, although its popularity seems to have diminished considerably. | |f_annotation='''GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [2]'''. American, "Country Dance" (6/8 time) or Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The jig is a composition of Michael Higgins (as "Green Mountain Boy" i.e. singular), who published his '''Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin''' in New York in 1829. Unfortunately, nothing is known about him. The tune was at one time a popular jig among Cape Breton fiddlers, perhaps picked up in one of the New York music publishing firm of Harding & Co., although its popularity seems to have diminished considerably on the island. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Winston Fitzgerald (1914–1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. | |||
|f_printed_sources='''Cape Breton's Magazine''', No. 46, 1987; p. 20. | |||
Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes'''), 1997; No. 186, p. 73. | |||
Guest ('''Hundred Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 32. | |||
'''Harding's All Round Collection''', 1905; No. 31, p. 10. | |||
Higgins ('''Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin'''), 1829; p. 7. | |||
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|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2315.html]<br> | |||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2315.html]<br> | |||
Latest revision as of 02:38, 27 March 2023
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GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [2]. American, "Country Dance" (6/8 time) or Jig. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The jig is a composition of Michael Higgins (as "Green Mountain Boy" i.e. singular), who published his Original Dances, Waltzes & Hornpipes for the Violin in New York in 1829. Unfortunately, nothing is known about him. The tune was at one time a popular jig among Cape Breton fiddlers, perhaps picked up in one of the New York music publishing firm of Harding & Co., although its popularity seems to have diminished considerably on the island.
