X:1 % T:Reel for a Portland Fancy T:Portland Fancy [2] S:John Taggart M:C| L:1/8 K:G G3B A2G2|GABc d2g2|G3...
REEL FOR A PORTLAND FANCY. AKA - "Portland Fancy (2)." American, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC. Portland Fancy is the name of a contra dance.
Source for notated version: - the 1938 typewritten manuscript of fiddler John Taggart, entitled “Recollections of a Busy Life” (New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H.) [Miller]. Taggart (1854-1943) was born and raised in Sharon, southwestern New Hampshire (Monadnock region), and was a onetime orchestra leader and composer.
Printed sources : - Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 238, p. 145.
Recorded sources: - New Hampshire Fiddler’s Union, Miller & Peery – “The Music of John Taggart” (1989). The Golden Griffon Stringtet - "Propinquity" (1993).