Annotation:Jackson's Rolling Jig

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JACKSON'S ROLLING JIG (Port Cornad Mic Seoin). Irish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is called "Jackson's Rolling Pin" in Cooke's Collection of Favourite Country Dances for 1797. It appears as a untitled four-part jig in County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman's mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. 3, p. 142), and as "Cat's Bagpipes (The)" in P.W. Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), also in four parts. Breathnach finds a Leitrim title as "Jackson's Favourite Jig."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 62 (appears as "Jackson's Rolling"). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 44. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 943, p. 175. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 170, p. 42. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 92.

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