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'''JACKSON'S BOTTLE OF CLARET'''. AKA and see "[[Jackson's Mistake]]." Irish, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Paul Alday's '''A Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches, etc.''' (Dublin, c. 1800-1803), reprinted by O'Neill in '''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody''' (1922, 148). Breathnach (1996) finds it under the title The tune, under the title "[[Jackson's Mistake]]", can be found in a manuscript by Fermanagh musician Patrick Gunn. The first part of "[[Fat Man's Fancy (The)]]" in O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (No. 907) is shared with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret." The tune and title were entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria). | '''JACKSON'S BOTTLE OF CLARET'''. AKA and see "[[Jackson's Mistake]]," "[[River Cree (The)]]." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Paul Alday's '''A Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches, etc.''' (Dublin, c. 1800-1803), reprinted by O'Neill in '''Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody''' (1922, 148). Breathnach (1996) finds it under the title The tune, under the title "[[Jackson's Mistake]]", can be found in a manuscript by Fermanagh musician Patrick Gunn. The first part of "[[Fat Man's Fancy (The)]]" in O'Neill's '''Music of Ireland''' (No. 907) is shared with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret." The tune and title were entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria). | ||
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The alternate title "River Cree (The)" is the name by which the tune appeared in '''Cooke's Selection of Country Dances''' (1796). "The River Cree" is the name of a Scottish Country Dance, still popular, named for the River Cree in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, which forms part of the boundary between the counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. A number of jigs are played for the dance medley, although it most often starts with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret." | |||
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JACKSON'S BOTTLE OF CLARET. AKA and see "Jackson's Mistake," "River Cree (The)." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune appears in Paul Alday's A Pocket Volume of Airs, Duets, Songs, Marches, etc. (Dublin, c. 1800-1803), reprinted by O'Neill in Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922, 148). Breathnach (1996) finds it under the title The tune, under the title "Jackson's Mistake", can be found in a manuscript by Fermanagh musician Patrick Gunn. The first part of "Fat Man's Fancy (The)" in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (No. 907) is shared with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret." The tune and title were entered into the large 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria).
The alternate title "River Cree (The)" is the name by which the tune appeared in Cooke's Selection of Country Dances (1796). "The River Cree" is the name of a Scottish Country Dance, still popular, named for the River Cree in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, which forms part of the boundary between the counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. A number of jigs are played for the dance medley, although it most often starts with "Jackson's Bottle of Claret."
Source for notated version: copied from Paul Alday's Pocket Volume (c. 1800) [O'Neill].
Printed sources: O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 133.
Recorded sources: