Annotation:Handsome Kate

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X:1 T:Handsome Kate M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:D Adcd BdAF|EGFD CDEG|FD....

HANDSOME KATE. AKA and see "Bonnie Kate (1)." Irish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Handsome Kate" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster^[1]. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor notes the similarity of Donnellan's reel with the well-known "Bonnie Kate (1)." The two reels are structurally and harmonically similar with some shared musical motifs, especially in the cadence. However, there are also a great many melodic differences, and the best conclusion may be that they are probably cognate, but that each explore the same material in their own distinct way.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection [O'Connor].

Printed sources : - Gerry O'Connor (The Rose in the Gap), 2018; No. 206, p. 105.

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↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

[1] Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.

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