Annotation:Breeches Maker (The)

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BREECHES MAKER, THE. AKA - "The Britches Maker." Scottish, Air (6/8 time) or Jig. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A more ornate setting of Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan's "All Alive (1)," although the tune has had numerous other names as well.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 323. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pp. 30-31.

Recorded sources:

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