Annotation:Rover's Return (The)

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ROVER'S RETURN, THE. AKA and see "Any Auld Thing at all," "Big Ned," “Haugh's Jig,” "Herlihy's Rant," “Inverness Jig (2) (The),” "John Doherty's Jig," "King William's Rambles," "MacDonald of the Isles," “MacGregor Jig,” “Mac's Fancy,” “March of Donald Lord of the Isles to the Battle of Harlaw,” “O'Reilly's Jig,” "Paddy Lyons',"“Victor's Return (The).” Irish, Canadian; Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Allan’s, Dunlay & Reich): AABBA’A’B’B’ (Dunlay & Greenberg).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Buddy MacMaster (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Reich].

Printed sources : - Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; p. 111. Dunlay & Reich (Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music from Cape Breton), 1986; p. 70. McDermott (Allan's Irish Fiddler), c. 1920’s; No. 27, p. 7.

Recorded sources: - Atlantica Music 02 77657 50222 26, Donny LeBlanc - “Atlantic Fiddles” (1994). Celtic CX 14, SCX 57, Dan Joe MacInnis - "The Fiddlers of Cape Breton" (various artists). Rounder 7038, William Kennedy & Morgan MacQuarrie - "Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, vol. 2" (2002. various artists).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [3]