Annotation:Parisot's Hornpipe

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PARISOTT'S. AKA and see "Madam Parisott's Hornpipe," "Whiskey Barrel." AKA – “Parasott.” English, American; Hornpipe. C Major (Cole, Ryan): D Major (Harding): G Major (O’Neill, Wilson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was published in America by George P. Knauff under the title "Whiskey Barrel" in his Virginia Reels, volume I (Baltimore, 1839). Originally "Madam Parisott's Hornpipe," by the middle of the nineteenth century the title had typically been abbreviated to "Parisott Hornpipe."

Source for notated version: copied from Wilson’s Companion to the Ballroom (1816) [O’Neill].

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 110. Hardings All Round Collection, 1905; No. 42, p. 12. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 330. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 146 (appears as “Parasott”).

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