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|f_annotation='''GILDA ROY'''. American, Reel. USA, south-eastern Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. No musical relation to the tune that is usually known as "[[Gilderoy (2)]]" or "[[Red Haired Boy]]." The title, however, is a corruption of "Gilderoy" which itself is an Englished version of the Gaelic ''giolla ruadh'', or 'red-haired boy'. The tune was recorded in 1937 by the Alan and Elizabeth Lomax for the Library of Congress from the playing of Kentucky fiddler W.H. Stepp. Magoffin County, eastern Kentucky, fiddler John Salyer (1882-1952, who called the tune "Gilda Roy") played the 'f' notes so that they sound almost 'f#'. Similarities with the "[[Billy in the Lowground (1)]]" family of tunes. | |||
---- | |f_source_for_notated_version= from a 1941 home recording of fiddler John M. Salyer (Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky), by his sons, Glen and Grover [Milliner & Koken, Titon]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Miliner & Koken ('''Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes'''), 2011; p. 236. Titon ('''Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes'''), 2001; No. 48, p. 79. | |||
---- | |f_recorded_sources=Berea College Appalachian Center AC-003, "John M. Salyer: Home Recordings 1941-1942, vol. 2" (1993). Bruce Greene - "Leatherwood Stocking." | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear John Salyer's 1941 home recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/gilda-roy] and Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/4217]<br> | |||
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'''GILDA ROY'''. American, Reel. USA, south-eastern Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. No musical relation to the tune that is usually known as "[[Gilderoy (2)]]" or "[[Red Haired Boy]]." The title, however, is a corruption of "Gilderoy" which itself is an Englished version of the Gaelic ''giolla ruadh'', or 'red-haired boy'. The tune was recorded in 1937 by the Alan and Elizabeth Lomax for the Library of Congress from the playing of Kentucky fiddler W.H. Stepp. Magoffin County, eastern Kentucky, fiddler John Salyer (1882-1952, who called the tune "Gilda Roy") played the 'f' notes so that they sound almost 'f#'. Similarities with the "[[Billy in the Lowground (1)]]" family of tunes. | |||
Hear John Salyer's 1941 home recording at Slippery Hill [https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/gilda-roy] and Berea Sound Archives [https://soundarchives.berea.edu/items/show/4217]<br> | |||
Latest revision as of 03:07, 29 May 2023
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GILDA ROY. American, Reel. USA, south-eastern Kentucky. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. No musical relation to the tune that is usually known as "Gilderoy (2)" or "Red Haired Boy." The title, however, is a corruption of "Gilderoy" which itself is an Englished version of the Gaelic giolla ruadh, or 'red-haired boy'. The tune was recorded in 1937 by the Alan and Elizabeth Lomax for the Library of Congress from the playing of Kentucky fiddler W.H. Stepp. Magoffin County, eastern Kentucky, fiddler John Salyer (1882-1952, who called the tune "Gilda Roy") played the 'f' notes so that they sound almost 'f#'. Similarities with the "Billy in the Lowground (1)" family of tunes.
