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|f_annotation='''DRUNKEN SAILOR [1], THE'''. AKA and see "[[Quick Step South Fencibles]]." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time); American, Dance Tune. USA, Michigan, southwestern Pa. D Major (Raven): G Major (Ford, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Flannagan): AABB (Ford, Raven): AABBCC (Sweet). The tune has been used for numerous songs, play-party tunes, and ditties, including "Ten Little Indians" and "The Monkey's Wedding." Bayard (1981) thought that the tune was a simplified version of the Irish hornpipe called "[[Groves (The)]]" ('''O'Neill's Music of Ireland''', Nos. 1598 & 1703), which in turn seemed to him to have been based on a "simple, fundamental strain" of the Scottish "[[Johnny Cope (1)]]." Ralph Sweet, in his collection for the fife, tacked on as a third part to the usual two parts of the tune the first part of the nautical melody known as "Earl-ie in the Morning." Fuld, in '''The Book of World Famous Music''', traced the tune to manuscript collections of around 1800 and in print to the mid-1820's. However, origins have been further clarified by Fr. John Quinn who identifies the tune as "[[Quick Step South Fencibles]]", a march published in Glasgow by James Aird in 1785. | |f_annotation='''DRUNKEN SAILOR [1], THE'''. AKA and see "[[Quick Step South Fencibles]]." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time); American, Dance Tune. USA, Michigan, southwestern Pa. D Major (Raven): G Major (Ford, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Flannagan): AABB (Ford, Raven): AABBCC (Sweet). The tune has been used for numerous songs, play-party tunes, and ditties, including "Ten Little Indians" and "The Monkey's Wedding." Bayard (1981) thought that the tune was a simplified version of the Irish hornpipe called "[[Groves (The)]]" ('''O'Neill's Music of Ireland''', Nos. 1598 & 1703), which in turn seemed to him to have been based on a "simple, fundamental strain" of the Scottish "[[Johnny Cope (1)]]." Ralph Sweet, in his collection for the fife, tacked on as a third part to the usual two parts of the tune the first part of the nautical melody known as "Earl-ie in the Morning." Fuld, in '''The Book of World Famous Music''', traced the tune to manuscript collections of around 1800 and in print to the mid-1820's. However, origins have been further clarified by Fr. John Quinn who identifies the tune as "[[Quick Step South Fencibles]]", a march published in Glasgow by James Aird in 1785. | ||
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The first two and a half measures correspond to the beginning of Abraham Mackintosh's "[[Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey]]" (c. 1797). | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=George Strosnider (elderly fidder from Greene County, Pa., 1930's), Thomas Patterson (Elizabeth, Pa., 1930's), Frank King (Westmoreland County, Pa., 1960). | |f_source_for_notated_version=George Strosnider (elderly fidder from Greene County, Pa., 1930's), Thomas Patterson (Elizabeth, Pa., 1930's), Frank King (Westmoreland County, Pa., 1960). | ||
|f_printed_sources=Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 223, pp. 179–180. | |f_printed_sources=Bayard ('''Dance to the Fiddle'''), 1981; No. 223, pp. 179–180. | ||
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DRUNKEN SAILOR [1], THE. AKA and see "Quick Step South Fencibles." English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time); American, Dance Tune. USA, Michigan, southwestern Pa. D Major (Raven): G Major (Ford, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Flannagan): AABB (Ford, Raven): AABBCC (Sweet). The tune has been used for numerous songs, play-party tunes, and ditties, including "Ten Little Indians" and "The Monkey's Wedding." Bayard (1981) thought that the tune was a simplified version of the Irish hornpipe called "Groves (The)" (O'Neill's Music of Ireland, Nos. 1598 & 1703), which in turn seemed to him to have been based on a "simple, fundamental strain" of the Scottish "Johnny Cope (1)." Ralph Sweet, in his collection for the fife, tacked on as a third part to the usual two parts of the tune the first part of the nautical melody known as "Earl-ie in the Morning." Fuld, in The Book of World Famous Music, traced the tune to manuscript collections of around 1800 and in print to the mid-1820's. However, origins have been further clarified by Fr. John Quinn who identifies the tune as "Quick Step South Fencibles", a march published in Glasgow by James Aird in 1785.
The first two and a half measures correspond to the beginning of Abraham Mackintosh's "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey" (c. 1797).
