Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on November 16th 2010 by Crudo dLa Masa.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Corsican Fairy, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amin
A2c e2c|d2A f2d|ecA aec|BGE E3|
A2c e2c|dAd fga|edc BAG|A3A3:|
EGB dBG|Aed cBA|Daf ecA|BGE E3|
AEG FDE|DFA dfa|edc BAG|A3A3:|
Origin
I have found this jig in the richard robinson tunebook and in a site called "folktunefinder". The tune is from the north-west of england. It seems quite simple to play and it is really catchy.
# Posted on November 16th 2010 by Crudo dLa Masa
Corsica ferries?
http://www.corsica-ferries.fr/
# Posted on November 18th 2010 by swisspiper
Re:Corsica ferries?
Mmm I think that the name of the tune don't refer to the ship transport
# Posted on November 19th 2010 by Crudo dLa Masa
The Corsican Fairy
Is it too late to pick this up ? I only just saw it, I haven't been looking here regularly.
A better source for this is the Village Music Project's "Browne 11" manuscript - http://www.village-music-project.org.uk/abc/browne11.abc - they say, from Troutbeck, in the Lake district (NW England, yes) c. 1800. (My version wasn't a copy of theirs - I had a brief sight of some tunes from the same collection, independently, and wrote out what I had, but they have more). There are some very interesting, and rather strange, tunes in it.
I'm not sure what the title's about. Would it have made sense for Cumbrians in 1800 to be calling Napoleon a "fairy", or is it a coincidence ?
# Posted on September 10th 2011 by Richard Robinson
Corsican Fairy
Scroll down to p. 448
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2238554/pdf/annrcse00036-0082.pdf
# Posted on September 10th 2011 by ∅