A Minor versions
The Kerr setting, with only one sharp instead of three, suggests a modal scale, popularly known as A minor. This key signature is used in the settings to be found in The Gunn Book of Fermanagh, and those in the Reilly manuscripts of south Leitrim. In the way they played the tune, however, the Reilly family, and other fiddlers of the Kennedy School in Leitrim, departed from the A minor setting by following the lead of their neighbour, Alex Sutherland, who, using the A major key signature, created a six-part setting, by playing the Donalbane section a second time in the normal upper octave.
Titles
- Parts
- ABC,D,
- Scordatura
- ae’a’e’’
- Parts
- ABC,D,
The first 29 of the 32 notes in the 3rd part are written in the normal staff notation, the last 3 notes and the remainder of the tune are in <ae’a’e’’> scordatura. John Masterson (RY1.023) may have been copying from Kerr, but noticed the error and corrected it, and the other two Reilly settings (RY12.134 and RY12.155) are copied from Masterson’s corrected setting.
- Parts
- ABC,D,
