Annotation:Major (3) (The)
X:1 T:Mayjor [3], The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig S:Geoghegan - Compleat Tutor for the Pastoral or New Bagpipe (c. 1745-46) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmix TF2D D/F/A/D/ | DF/G/A/D/ EFG | F2D DF/G/A/D/ | GEC EFG :| |: FDA ABc | (B/c/d)B (A/B/c)A | FDA Bdc | B2E EFG | FDA ABc | (B/c/d)B (A/B/c)A | TB2G F/G/AF | GEC EFG :| |: FED dcd | AFD EFG | FED cBc | GEC EFG :| |: (B/c/e)B (A/B/c)A | G/A/BG F/G/AF | B/c/dB A/B/cA |B2E EFG | B/c/dB A/B/cA | G/A/BG F/G/AF | dcB A/B/cF | GEC EFG :| |: AFD DF/G/AD | AFD EFG | AFD A(F/G/A/F/) | GEC EFG :| |: A(F/G/A/F/) cBA | dcB A/B/cB | F/GAF (B/c/d)c | {c}B2E EFG | A(F/G/A/F/) cBA | dcB A/B/cA | F/G/AF cAF | GEC EFG :| |: D/D/Dd D/D/DF | D/D/DF EFG | D/D/DA D/D/DF |GEC EFG :|
MAJOR [3], THE. AKA and see "Mooncoin Jig (The)." Irish, English; Jig (6/8 time). A Major (Hime, Mulhollan, O'Farrell, Thompson): G Major (Geoghegan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Thompson): AABBCC (Hime): AABBCCDD (Kennedy, O'Farrell): AABBCCDDEEFFGG (Geoghegan): AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUVV (Mulhollan). The melody first appears under this title in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2, published in London by John Johnson in 1742. Mulhollan (Edinburgh, 1804) identifies the tune's provenance as "Irish," and it was printed in Samuel, Ann & Peter Thompson's collection of Irish tunes, The Hibernian Muse (1787). "The Major" also was entered into the 1762 music copybook of Cumbrian musician Joseph Barnes. "Major (1) (The)" is a Northumbrian variant of the same tune. First strains of the tune tend to be the same, second strains differ, perhaps the result of the numerous variation settings of the tune.
