Annotation:Cauliflower Jig (The)

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CAULIFLOWER JIG, THE. Irish, Jig. D Dorian (Stanford/Petrie): D Major (Shields/Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Stanford/Petrie): AABB (Shields/Goodman). The earliest appearance of the tune is in Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman's mid-19th century manuscripts. Goodman (1828-1896) was an uilleann piper and an Irish speaker who collected locally in County Cork and elsewhere in Munster.

Source for notated version: "From P. MacDowell, Esq." [Stanford/Petrie]. Patrick MacDowell (1799-1870) was a noted Irish sculptor.

Printed sources: Shields/Goodman (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 213, pg. 86. Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 963.

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