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RED SHOES, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Minor (MacQuarrie): A Mixolydian (Fitzgerald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer biography:Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). MacDonald evidently composed it as a minor-mode tune, as it appears in MacQuarrie's The Cape Breton Collection (1940), had minor intervals throughout, but it can be played in dorian mode (one sharp), and Winston Fitzgerald set it in mixolydian mode (2 sharps), or pipe tuning.

Source for notated version: Francis MacDonald (b. 1940, Morell Rear, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald’s Collection), 1997; No. 90, p. 38. MacQuarrie (The Cape Breton Collection), 1940; p. 50. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edwards Island), 1996; p. 105.

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-'''RED SHOES, THE.''' Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer [[biography:Dan R. MacDonald]] (1911-1976). Paul Cranford (1997) notes that the first published version, in The Cape Breton Collection (1940), had minor intervals throughout. Winston Fitzgerald set it in pipe tuning.
+'''RED SHOES, THE.''' Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Minor (MacQuarrie): A Mixolydian (Fitzgerald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer [[biography:Dan R. MacDonald]] (1911-1976). MacDonald evidently composed it as a minor-mode tune, as it appears in MacQuarrie's '''The Cape Breton Collection''' (1940), had minor intervals throughout, but it can be played in dorian mode (one sharp), and Winston Fitzgerald set it in mixolydian mode (2 sharps), or pipe tuning.
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-''Printed sources'': Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald’s Collection'''), 1997; No. 90, p. 38. Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edwards Island'''), 1996; p. 105.
+''Printed sources'': Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald’s Collection'''), 1997; No. 90, p. 38. MacQuarrie ('''The Cape Breton Collection'''), 1940; p. 50. Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edwards Island'''), 1996; p. 105.
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