Annotation:Three Captains (1) (The)
X:1 T:Three Captains [1], The T:Three Sea Captains, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 32, p. 6) B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=5&z=390.4964%2C146.4494%2C2042.4994%2C714.5007 N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim. Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB|ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|ABcB AB/G/ FE/D/| GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB|ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|Ac/B/ AG/F/ G3|| f|g2 dc B2 Gf|g2 dg ec/A/ Af|g2 bg/e/ f2 af/d/|eg/f/ ed/c/ d2B2| c2 ec/A/ B2 dB/G/|ABcB AB/G/ FE/D/|GABG cAFD|GABc dBGB| ce/c/ Ac Bd/B/ GB|Ac/B/ AG/F/ G2||
THREE CAPTAINS [1], THE (Na Tri Taoisaig/Taoiseaca). AKA and see "Clark's Favorite," "William Clark's Favorite," "Three Sea Captains." Scottish, Irish; Long or Set Dance (in duple or triple time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB (Roche): AABB (O'Neill). "From O'Neill, slightly altered" (Roche). The tune is a Lowlands Scottish import to Ireland and can be found in theCalvert Collection(1799), assembled by Thomas Calvert, a musician from Kelso, Scotland. A note in the mansucript states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” See note for “annotation:Three Sea Captains” for more.
