Guilderoy
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Gilderoy" is an earlier, minor key, relative of what was later called <br> "The Red Haired Boy" family of tunes. The name 'Gilderoy' is an<br> English corruption of the Gaelic words "Giolla Ruaidh"; 'giolla'<br> is generally taken to mean a servant or a young person, while<br> 'ruaidh' literally means 'red', though when used in conjunction<br> with a person it refers to red hair. In modern Scotland and<br> Ireland hunting and fishing guides are still referred to as<br> 'Gilles' (an anglicized form)".<br> Versions of this were printed in Barnes's English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2 (2005),<br> Bayard's Hill Country Tunes (1944) (appears as "Guilderoy"),<br> Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (1861),<br> Howe's Musician's Omnibus No. 1 (1862),<br> Kennedy's Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 1 (1951),<br> Krassen's Appalachian Fiddle (1973),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903),<br> O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> McGibbon's Scots Tunes, book III (1762),<br> Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V (1760),<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984),<br> Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 2 (c. 1821) and<br> William Thomson's Orpheus Caledonius, vol. II (1733).<br>
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