Annotation:Devil or No Devil: Difference between revisions

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DEVIL OR NO DEVIL. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in J. Wilson's The Pocket Preceptor for the Fife (London, 1805), followed by J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes (New York, 1807-1810, with an alternate title of "Devil in Ireland"). It later appeared 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, 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.
+'''DEVIL OR NO DEVIL'''. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody first appears in J. Wilson's '''The Pocket Preceptor for the Fife''' (London, 1805), followed by '''J. Hewitt's Fashionable Repertory of Country Dances and Waltzes''' (New York, 1807-1810, with an alternate title of "Devil in Ireland"). It later appeared 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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