Annotation:Duke's Retreat
Tune properties and standard notation
DUKE'S RETREAT. Scottish? Irish?, Hornpipe or Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. See also the related melody in printed by Frank Kidson in his Old English Country Dances (p. 23).
Source for notated version: fiddler Alec Kerr of Laharn, County Antrim, who recorded for Breathnach in 1969 [Breathnach]. Number .
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 313 (appears as untitled hornpipe). O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; p. 103.
Recorded sources: