S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes

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S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes

Tunes:
Ewan MacColl: Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell
Walker Jackson: Humours of Panteen, Jackson's Bouner Bougher (3 Ways), Jackson over the Water,Jackson’s Turret, The Figure of 3,
John Bowie: The Humours of Panteen, Pither in Enough
James Aird: Pither in Enough, Jackson Over the Water,
John Murphy: Jackson Over the Water
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Lake, Jacksons Punch Bowl, Jacksons Bottle of Punch
Sutherland: Jackson’s Lake,
Francis O’Neill: The Figure of Three

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Jamie Raeburn

1840: Jamie Raeburn as seen on a Penny Sheet
https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=15846

1901: Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell from Robert Ford’s Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland: With Many Old and Familiar Melodies Vol. 2
https://archive.org/details/vagabondsongsan00fordgoog/page/n74/mode/2up

1960: Jamie Raeburn From Ewan MacColl’s Chorus from the Gallows
https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2011/01/ewan-maccoll-chorus-from-the-gallows-tsdl502/

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Walker Jackson

I play through Many Tunes from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.
Unfortunately it isn’t available online anywhere in facsimile form, but NPU has a transcription available here:
https://pipers.ie/source/gallery/?galleryId=51&_gl=1*n8kkbi*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAxMTYyNC4yLjEuMTcxNjAxMTYyOC4wLjAuMA..

Or the ABC on Bill Black’s Website here:
http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/30/30-table.html

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1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen from Jackson

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1789: The Humours of Panteen from John Bowie’s Collection of Strathspey’s Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels_and_Country_Dances_(Bowie%2C_John)

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1774: Jackson’s Bouner Bougher

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Pither in Enough

1774: Pither in Enough from Walker Jackson

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1789: Pither in Enough from John Bowie’s Collection of Strathspey’s Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels_and_Country_Dances_(Bowie%2C_John)

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1780s: Pither in Enough From Aird Vol 3
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564692

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Jackson’s Over The Water

1774: Jackson’s Over The Water From Jackson

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1780s: Jackson over the Water from Aird Vol 3
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564116

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1810: Jackson Over the Water from John Murphy’s collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs with Variations
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA32&printsec=frontcover

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1804: Jacksons Lake from O’Farrell’s Tutor
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=53&mediaId=5521&_gl=1*11706ep*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAwODgzNS4xLjEuMTcxNjAwODkwOS4wLjAuMA..

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1780s: Jackson Lake From Sutherland’s Manuscript:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-81-120.pdf

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1774: Jackson’s Turret from Walker Jackson

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Figure of Three

1774: The Figure of Three from Jackson

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1808: Jackson’s Punch Bowl from O’Farrell Pocket Companion #3
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

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1922: The Figure of Three from O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Waifs_and_Strays_of_Gaelic_Melody/S3UQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover

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1808: Jackson’s Bottle of Punch from O’Farrell Pocket Companion #3
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf

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