Annotation:Jockey Stays Lang at the Fair
Tune properties and standard notation
JOCKEY STAYS LANG AT THE FAIR. English, Jig. England, Northumberland. C Major (with F's sharped). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. "A characteristic specimen of smallpipe variations," says Emmerson (1971) of this piece.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String" A History of Scottish Dance Music), 1971; p. 191. Peacock (Peacock's Tunes), c. 1805; No. 13, p. 4. Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 167.
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