Annotation:Casey's Jig (2)

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CASEY'S JIG [2]. AKA and see "Cossey's Jig." Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Glasgow publisher James Aird gives the tune's provenance as 'Irish'. It was entered into the 1840 music manuscript copybook collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook, of Wigton, Cumbria, and into vol. 2 of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collections of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper biography:James Goodman. See also Goodman's related "Humors of Newtown."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3).

Recorded sources:

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