George Booker

reel

Key signature: Amajor

Submitted on January 15th 2008 by The Merry Highlander.

This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.

Also known as Keeper Hill, The Marquis Of Huntley's Farewell.

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George Booker

Said to be a Revolutionary war hero in the good ol USA, but Ive never found evidence of that. There was a politician from Virginia I believe in the 1800s named George Booker. This is a great "upper south" reel that I play much faster than the midi here-- Q:210 Maybe.

Not Irish... should be deleted? Here's the Irish take from the Fiddlers Companion and the ABC tune maste Andrew Kuntz:

X:1
T:Keeper Hill
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 709
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
A,2 A,C EDEF|ABAc BABc|A,2 AC EDEF|ABcA BAFA|A,2 A,C EDEF|
ABAc BABc|defd cdec|BABc BAFA||cAae cAae|cAag fedc|dBbf dBbf|
dBbf gfed|cAae cAae|cAag fedc|defg agae|dBcA BAFA||

# Posted on January 15th 2008 by The Merry Highlander

Also the Scottish (From Fiddlers Companion)

X:1
T:Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell, The
M:C|
L:1/8
S:Strathspey
B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:A
C|A,2 A,>C E/E/E (E>F|A>Bc>B A2 (A>c|A,2 A,>C E/E/E (E>c|
B>c d/c/B/A/ (A<F F>A|A,2 A,>C E/E/E (E>F|A>Bc>B A2 (A>c|
d2 d>f e<c c>A|B>c d/c/B/A/ A<F F||f|f/e/d/c/ a>c b>c a2|f/e/d/c/ ac f>ed>c|
B<b b>f b/a/g/f/ b2|f<b b>f a>gf>e|f/e/d/c/ a>c b>c a2|f/e/d/c/ ac f>ed>c|
d/e/f/g/ a>g f>e d>c|B>c d/c/B/A/ A<F F>A||

# Posted on January 15th 2008 by The Merry Highlander

Also another variant

Camp Chase is a West Virginia variant that twists and turns around irregular measures: I don't have an ABC for that one. Although I don't go for "crooked" tunes, I am slowly learning a version of Camp Chase from a recording of Wilson Douglas a now deceased WV fiddler. So maybe someday Ill update that.

# Posted on January 15th 2008 by The Merry Highlander

"The Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell" R: Strathspey

Key signature: g minor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3751

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Key signature: g minor
Submitted on January 19th 2007 by f.pellerin.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6666

# Posted on January 16th 2008 by ceolachan

"The Bob Wi' The One Horn" ~ R: reel

~ the first link given above, dafydd's transcription...

# Posted on January 16th 2008 by ceolachan

This is no suggestion of 'duplication'. These links are by 'name', for comparison only, as this transcription and those tunes are very different from each other...

# Posted on January 16th 2008 by ceolachan