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NEOPOLITAN THRESHERS. AKA - "Neapolitan Threashers." English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. At the time Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection, vol. 2 (1785) was published, the Kingdom of Naples was governed by King Ferdinand IV, a member of the House of Bourbon and a younger son of Charles, King of Spain. He was (as a Bourbon) in opposition to the French Revolution and later to Napoleon. When Ferdinand attempted to take Rome, Napoleon chased him out of mainland Italy, to Sicily, where the British supported him by patrolling the waters against French invasion. As the British were allied with Ferdinand against the French, they used Naples (when it was in Ferdinand's control) as a Mediterranean resupply and refitting port for their fleet.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 47, p. 17.

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+'''NEOPOLITAN THRESHERS.''' AKA - "Neapolitan Threashers." English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. At the time Glasgow publisher James Aird's '''Selection''', vol. 2 (1785) was published, the Kingdom of Naples was governed by King Ferdinand IV, a member of the House of Bourbon and a younger son of Charles, King of Spain. He was (as a Bourbon) in opposition to the French Revolution and later to Napoleon. When Ferdinand attempted to take Rome, Napoleon chased him out of mainland Italy, to Sicily, where the British supported him by patrolling the waters against French invasion. As the British were allied with Ferdinand against the French, they used Naples (when it was in Ferdinand's control) as a Mediterranean resupply and refitting port for their fleet.
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