Annotation:Gilderoy (4)

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GILDEROY [4]. American, Reel. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A version of the Irish tune "Take Her Out and Air Her (3)" and "Touch Me if You Dare (1)." Alan Jabbour collected a version from Glen Lynn, Virginia, fiddler Henry Reed, that the latter identified as a "British field march" played by the retreating British at the Battle of New Orleans.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Ford (Traditional Music in America), 1940; p. 43.

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Tune properties and standard notation