Annotation:Midnight Frolic

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X:1 T:Midnight Frolic M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel K:G dc|B2 BA B2 BA|GABc d2 ef|gfge edcB|ABcB dcBA| B2 BA B2 BA|GAB d2 ef|gfge edB}dcBA G4|| d2b2a2g2|fgaf g2g2|d2b2a2g2|fgaf g4| d2b2a2g2|fgaf g2g2|d2b2a2g2|fgaf g2||

MIDNIGHT FROLIC, THE. AKA and see "Lady Kennedy's Reel," "Stafford Dance (The)." English (?), Irish (?); Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The reel appears as "Lady Kennedy's Reel" in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon biography:James Goodman (County Cork), and as "Stafford Dance (The)" in Book 2 of the c. 1883 music manuscript collection of fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 124, p. 30.

Recorded sources: -

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