Annotation:Lieutenant MacGuire's Jig
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LIEUTENANT MACGUIRE'S JIG. AKA – "Lt. MacGuire's Jig," "MacGuire's Jig." Scottish, Jig. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Composed by Duncan Johnstone. The first strain of "First of May (The)", found in Gunn's Caledonian Repository of Music (1848) and David Glen's Edinburgh Collection Book 2 (c. 1904), is nearly identical with this tune.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Logan's Collection.
Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 1), 1991; p. 40.
Johnstone (His Complete Compositions), 2003.
Scots Guards: Standard Settings of Pipe Music, vol. 2.
Recorded sources: Culburnie COL 113D, Aladair Fraser & Tony McManus – "Return to Kintail" (1999).
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