Annotation:Legacy (2) (The)
X:1 T:Legacy [2], The M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig K:G BA|~G3 BAB|gfg gab|G3 BAB|dBA ABA| GFG BAB|gfg gab|Age edB|dBA A:| |:Bd|efe edB|ded dBd|efe edB|dBA ABd| efe edB|ded def|gfg ege|dBA A:|]
LEGACY [2], THE. AKA and see "Larry Redican's Jig (1)," "Tailor’s Wedding (The)," "Skiver the Quilt (1)." Irish, Jig (6/8 time) G Major ('A' part) & E Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Legacy" is the title used by Clare musicians Willie Clancy (1918–1973) and Bobby Casey (1926–2000) on their respective recordings, and is the most common title today. It was called "Larry Redican's" (after the influential New York fiddler of the mid-20th century) on Jack & Fr. Charlie Coen's "Branch Line" recording, and is also sometimes called "Coen's" as a result. Early printings are in R.M. Levey's mid-19th century collection as "Skiver the Quilt" and in William Gunn's Scottish bagpipe collection and Francis O'Neill's collections as "Tailor's Wedding (The)" (Gunn was a Glasgow piper and pipe-maker who published a collection of tunes "adapted for the Highland bagpipe" in 1848). The jig is occasionally played in the key of 'F' in sessions, which, coincidently, is the key in which R.M. Levey set his cognate version (albeit with parts reversed from other tunes in this family). There seems to be quite a bit of cross-influence between Scottish and Irish settings: Francis O'Neill included the tune in his Music of Ireland (1903) using the same title as Gunn, "The Tailor's Wedding." A Scottish port-a-beul (mouth music) melody, "Fosgail an dorus" is cognate in the first strain.