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Theme code Index
2H1H2H7 2H2H61H
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region
Scotland
Genre/Style
Scottish
Meter/Rhythm
Country Dance, Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of
D
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Ionian (Major)
Time signature
6/8
History
Structure
AABB
Editor/Compiler
Biography:James Aird
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Selection of Scotch English Irish and Foreign Airs vol. 3
Tune and/or Page number
No. 491, p. 189
Year of publication/Date of MS
1788
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score ( )
Jink About: Annotations
X:1
%
T:Jink About
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:James Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (Glasgow, 1788, No. 491, p. 189)
N:”Humbly dedicated to the Volunteers and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland”
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
f|ecA def|ece c2f|ecA e>dc|BcB d2f|
ecA def|ece c2e|fgf edc|BcB d2:|
|:f|ecA ecA|ecA d2f|ecA edc|BcB d2f|
ecA ecA|ecA c2e|fgf edc|BcB d2:|]
X:1
%
T:Jink about
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
N:No key signature in original MS.
S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 47)
N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:D
f|ecA def|ece B2f|ecA edc|BcB d2f|
ecA def|ecA c2f|fgf edc|BcB d2:|
f|ecA ecA|ecA d2f|ecB ecB|BcB d2f|
ecA ecA|dcA c2f|fgf edc|BcB d2:|]
Jink About: Annotations