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Cape Breton

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 22nd 2009 by fiddlerdan.

This tune has been added to 31 tunebooks.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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Rogha Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 2008 by Various Artists
Seisiún Na H-Éireann 2006 Festival CD by Various Artists
The Morning After by Beneche
To Meet A Friend by Josephine Marsh & Cyril O'Donoghue

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X: 1
T: Cape Breton
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:(3(A/B/c/|d3) A2G|FEF DEF|G2Be2d|cea gfe|
d3A2G|FEF DEF|GBe cBc|d3d2:|
|:(c/d/|e2)c Ace|f2d Adf|gag fed|ecA ABc|
dAF GBe|cBc dfa|fef gBc|d3d2:|

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Cape Breton sheetmusic

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Cape Breton Jig

I got this tune from the playing of Buddy MacMaster while at Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp in the early 90's. When I asked the name of it, both he and David MacIssac couldn't remember it.

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by fiddlerdan

& neither can I, but I'm familiar enough with it...

I did a quick look and haven't yet found it, but I'm sure I have it both on a recoding and in notes, somewhere... It's a fun jig to play and dance to... It may be an extension of the confusions I've been in lately, but I'm remembering this with a second ending ~

X: 2
T: Cape Breton
T: gan ainm
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|: B/c/ |\
dcd A^GA | F^EF DDD/=E/F | G2 B e2 d | cea gfe |
d3 A3 | F^EF D=EF | GEe cBc | d3 d2 :|
|: c/d/ |\
e2 c Ace | f2 d Adf | g2 e f2 d | ecA AB/c/d |
[1 ecA Ace | fdA Ad/e/f | efd cd/c/B | A3 A2 :|
[2 dAF GBe | cBc dfa | f^ef gBc | d3 d2 |]

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

Where did that extra D come from? 1st part, second bar ~ DDD/=E/F ~ which should read instead ~ DD/=E/F... :-/

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

~ or ~ DD/D/=E/F

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

~ I meant ~ D/D/D/=E/F

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

recoding, recording, letters dropping in and out, is this some kind of spatial anomaly? WHOOOSH! Damn, that's it, the bite one of those little floor dwellers gave me on the toe. It's gone and got infected, but in a spatial anomaly sort of way, if you know what I mean. Well, they life in a different dimension, so this infection is causing letters to disappear and reappear, out of the usual order of time and space... Que the old "Twilight Zone" theme music...

I've sent a Jack Russell down their hole, so I shouldn't be bothered by those little atonal rag balls for a spell... Now, where's me rum?

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

life ~ live ~ see, I told you so...

# Posted on November 22nd 2009 by ceolachan

take more water with it C...

# Posted on November 23rd 2009 by john knoss

I don't cut it with water at all... ;-)

# Posted on November 23rd 2009 by ceolachan

You might find this tune on Donald Angus Beaton's tape. I know that he played it and I thought that he played it in C major.

# Posted on November 23rd 2009 by mactcampbell

Missing slur added

I added a slur tying the first 4 notes together; I think it makes it easier to play this way (for fiddlers anyway):
|:(3(A/B/c/|d3) A2G

# Posted on November 23rd 2009 by fiddlerdan

Thanks mactcampbell... I should have considered another key...

# Posted on November 24th 2009 by ceolachan

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