Annotation:Jenny Rock the Cradle
X:1 T:Jenny Rock the Cradle M:C L:1/8 R:Reel N:Goodman obtained the tune from the music manuscripts of 19th century N:Dublin bookseller John O'Daly. S:Rev. James Goodman music manuscript collection (vol. 2, p. 152) N:Canon Goodman was a uilleann piper and cleric who collected primarily N:in County Cork from a variety of sources in the mid-19th century. F:http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=155&z=1047.8431%2C1302.5165%2C7429.8284%2C2584.8765 F:at Trinity College Dublin / Irish Traditional Music Archive goodman.itma.ie Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G GABe dBBe|dBBe d2 BA|GABe dBBg|gage d2 cA:| |:gage fddf|gage f2 ed|gaba gfed|efge d2 BA:|]
JENNY ROCK THE CRADLE. AKA and see "Charles Leslie," "Highland Reel (3) (The)." Irish, Scottish; Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The reel is contained under the "Jenny Rock the Cradle" title in vol. 2 (p. 152)[1] of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musicologist). A version of it was printed in Glasgow publisher James S. Kerr's Merry Melodies as "Charles Leslie," and Goodman manuscripts researchers Hugh and Lisa Shields[2] find a cognate to the first strain in Goodman's own "Jack Lattin" (vol. 4, p. 96). An earlier version of the reel appears in the c. 1818 collection of Ayrshire fiddler John Hall as "Highland Reel (3) (The)."
"Jennie Rock the Cradle" is melodically different enough to warrant a separate entry, but also has ties to "Jackie Layton." The latter has harmonic and cadential similarities to "Jenny Rock the Cradle," and a similar character.
