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|f_annotation='''LEAVE WELL ALONE.'''  Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Leave Well Alone", a Munster slide, has English antecedents as a quadrille tune. It can be found in three untitled entries<ref>The c. 1850 Winter ms. has the tune as "Popular Organ Tune" (ms. p. 18), "Quadrille in D" (ms. p. 52), and "Quicksteps" (ms. p. 104). </ref> in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
|f_annotation='''LEAVE WELL ALONE.'''  AKA and see "[[Golden Valley (The)]]." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Leave Well Alone", a Munster slide, has English antecedents as a quadrille tune. It can be found in three untitled entries<ref>The c. 1850 Winter ms. has the tune as "Popular Organ Tune" (ms. p. 18), "Quadrille in D" (ms. p. 52), and "Quicksteps" (ms. p. 104). </ref> in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.
|f_printed_sources=David Taylor ('''Music for the Sets: Yellow Book)''', 1995; p. 13. Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 146, p. 56 (ms. originally dated 1850).
|f_printed_sources=David Taylor ('''Music for the Sets: Yellow Book)''', 1995; p. 13. Geoff Woolfe ('''William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book'''), 2007; No. 146, p. 56 (ms. originally dated 1850).
|f_see_also_listing=Hear the slide played by Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpSqa-XklA]<br>
|f_see_also_listing=Hear the slide played by Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich at youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpSqa-XklA]<br>

Revision as of 15:26, 29 June 2023



X: 1 T: Leave Well Alone M: 12/8 L: 1/8 R: slide K: Dmaj |:f2A f2A f2e e2f | dBc d2f edB ABd | f2A f2A f2e e2c | dBB ABd e3 d3 :| |: ABd def a2f e2d | Bee efe d2B BAB | ABd def a2f e2d | Bee efe d3 d3:|



LEAVE WELL ALONE. AKA and see "Golden Valley (The)." Irish, Slide (12/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Leave Well Alone", a Munster slide, has English antecedents as a quadrille tune. It can be found in three untitled entries[1] in the mid-19th century music manuscript of William Winter (1774-1861), a shoemaker and violin player who lived in West Bagborough in Somerset.


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Printed sources : - David Taylor (Music for the Sets: Yellow Book), 1995; p. 13. Geoff Woolfe (William Winter’s Quantocks Tune Book), 2007; No. 146, p. 56 (ms. originally dated 1850).



See also listing at :
Hear the slide played by Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich at youtube.com [1]



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  1. The c. 1850 Winter ms. has the tune as "Popular Organ Tune" (ms. p. 18), "Quadrille in D" (ms. p. 52), and "Quicksteps" (ms. p. 104).