Annotation:Devil or No Devil: Difference between revisions

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DEVIL OR NO DEVIL. American (?), Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes (New York, 1807-1810, with an alternate title of "Devil in Ireland"), and later in dancing master Thomas Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). A different, duple-time, tune of the same name was printed by John and Michael Paff in their Four New Country Dances in New York in 1799.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 26, p. 8.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''DEVIL OR NO DEVIL'''. American (?), Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in '''J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes''' (New York, 1807-1810), and later in dancing master Thomas Wilson's '''Companion to the Ball Room''' (London, 1816). A different, duple-time, tune of the same name was printed by John and Michael Paff in their '''Four New Country Dances''' in New York in 1799.
+'''DEVIL OR NO DEVIL'''. American (?), Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in '''J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes''' (New York, 1807-1810, with an alternate title of "Devil in Ireland"), and later in dancing master Thomas Wilson's '''Companion to the Ball Room''' (London, 1816). A different, duple-time, tune of the same name was printed by John and Michael Paff in their '''Four New Country Dances''' in New York in 1799.
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