Annotation:Three Captains (1) (The)
X:1 T:Three Captains [1], The T:Three Sea Captains, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 32, p. 6) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=5&z=390.4964%2C146.4494%2C2042.4994%2C714.5007 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB|ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|ABcB AB/G/ FE/D/| GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB|ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|Ac/B/ AG/F/ G3|| f|g2 dc B2 Gf|g2 dg ec/A/ Af|g2 bg/e/ f2 af/d/|eg/f/ ed/c/ d2B2| c2 ec/A/ B2 dB/G/|ABcB AB/G/ FE/D/|GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB| ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|Ac/B/ AG/F/ G2||
THREE CAPTAINS [1], THE (Na Tri Taoisaig/Taoiseaca). AKA and see "Clark's Favorite," "William Clark's Favorite," "Three Sea Captains." Scottish, Irish; Long or Set Dance (in duple or triple time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Roche): AABB (O'Neill). "From O'Neill, slightly altered" (Roche). The tune is a Lowlands Scottish import to Ireland and can be found in theCalvert Collection(1799), assembled by Thomas Calvert, a musician from Kelso, Scotland. A note in the mansucript states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” O'Neill records that he found the earliest appearance of the tune in print in McGoun'sRepository of Scots and Irish Airs(1799). See note for “annotation:Three Sea Captains” for more.
