Annotation:Jenny Bowser: Difference between revisions

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JENNY BOWSER. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by James Scott Skinner [1] (1843-1927). The tune has currency among Cape Breton musicians, having been recorded in by the Five MacDonald Fiddlers and popularized by fiddler Winston Fitzgerald.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 40. Skinner (Miller o' Hirn Collection).

Recorded sources: CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - "The 'Reel' Thing" (1994). Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert (Cape Breton, N.S.) - "In Jig Time!" (1995).

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [3]

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''JENNY BOWSER'''. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by James Scott Skinner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Skinner] (1843-1927). The tune has currency among Cape Breton musicians, having been recorded in by the Five MacDonald Fiddlers.
+'''JENNY BOWSER'''. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by James Scott Skinner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Skinner] (1843-1927). The tune has currency among Cape Breton musicians, having been recorded in by the Five MacDonald Fiddlers and popularized by fiddler Winston Fitzgerald.
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-''Printed sources'': MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; pg. 40.
+''Printed sources'': MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 40. Skinner ('''Miller o' Hirn Collection''').
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