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). The tune is a Lowlands Scottish import to Ireland and can be found set in 6/8 time in the Calvert 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.” O'Neill records that none of the musicians in the Irish Music Club in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century knew the tune (contributed by James O'Neill), and that it did not appear in any Irish source known to him. He found the earliest appearance in print in McGoun's Repository of Scots and Irish Airs (1799) as "Mr. William Clark's Favorite." Frank Roche credits O'Neill with his setting, remarking that he "slightly altered it" for his 1927 publication. See note for “annotation:Three Sea Captains” for more.
