Annotation:Kit White's No. 2

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KIT WHITE'S NO. 2. AKA Swaledale Lasses and see "Donal Don," "MacGregor's March," "Maurice O'Keeffe's (5)," "Rob Roy's March." English, Polka. B flat, today usually transposed to D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). Paul de Grae finds this tune to be nearly identical to an untitled polka from fiddler Maurice O'Keeffe. Scottish versions seen to predate all others. Peter Kennedy, presumably during the fifties, recorded five tunes from melodeon player Kit White of Swaledale, Sussex, that were released in 1975 on the Folktracks cassette Butter'd Pease. This one, that coupled with Drunken Sailor was used for the Circassian Circle, was later on transcribed and published by Dave Townsend in his A Secon Collection of English country dance Tunes in 1983, then reprinted in his English Dance Music Vol. 1 in 1993. Townsend named it simply Kit White's No. 2, and the title stuck among the English revival players, but according to the Kennedy's sleeve notes should in fact be called Swaledale Lasses.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Townsend (A Second Collection of English Country Dance Tunes), 1983. Townsend (English Dance Music Vol.1), The serpent Press 1993.

Recorded sources: Kit White - "BUTTER'D PEASE Yorkshire country Dances" (1975)EFDSS CD14, The Glowworms - "Running Joak" (2007). Folktracks FSC-60-211,.