Annotation:Ap Shenkin

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AP SHENKIN. AKA and see "Dear Little Island (The)," "Tempest (The)." There are numerous titles for the tune. The "Ap Shenkin" title comes from Parry ("Bard Alaw") in his book The Welsh Harper (vol. 1. p. 105), with the attribution: "Composed by J. Parry, 1803."

Samuel Bayard collected a version of the tune in southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1930's as an untitled square dance tune in the reportoire of fiddler and singer Samuel Losch (a middle-aged man who had been born in Juniata County).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 506, p. 461 (appears as "Square Dance"). Button & Whitaker's Selection of Dances, Reels and Waltzes for the Piano Forte, Harp Violin, & German Flute. With Figures, No. 8, 1815; p. 24. Goulding (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808), 1808; No. 2. Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune Book, vol. 1), No. 93, p. 46. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 3), c. 1880's; No. 258, p. 29. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 3), 1885; p. 258-259. Riley's Flute Melodies, vol. I), 1814; p. 58.

Recorded sources:

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X:1
T:Ap Shenkin
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Jig
S:Kerr - Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 258  (c. 1880's)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
d/c/|B2B Bgf|e2e efg|ded dcB|BAA Adc|B2B Bgf|e2e efg|ded cBA|AGG G2:|
||g|b2g a2f|gfe dcB|cde dgB|BAA A2g|b2g a2f|gfe agf|bag fge|dgf edc||

X:2
T:Square Dance
T:Ap Shenkin
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Bayard - Dance to the Fiddle (1981)
K:G
d/c/|B2B/B/ B>gg|e>ee e>fg|d>dd d>cB|c/B/AA Ad|
B2B/B/ B>gg|e>ee e>fg|ddd cBA|AGG G2||
g/a/|b2f a2f|gfe d2c|B>gg g>BB|c/B/AA A2|
b2f a2f|gfe d2c|Bgg gdB|{c/B}AGG G2||