Annotation:Red Shoes (The)

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RED SHOES, THE. Canadian, Reel. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Red Shoes" was composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Paul Cranford (1997) notes that the first published version, in The Cape Breton Collection (1940), had minor intervals throughout. Winston Fitzgerald set it in pipe tuning.

Source for notated version: Francis MacDonald (b. 1940, Morell Rear, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald’s Collection), 1997; No. 90, p. 38. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edwards Island), 1996; p. 105.

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