Orange and Blue Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Orange and Blue Jig", also known as "Blue Bonnets Hornpipe", "The Frolic",<br> "Hot Punch" or<br> "The Queen's Marriage"<br> is a Scottish jig in 6/8 time and C Major (Gow, Howe, Lowe,<br> Manson, Skye), D Major (Perlman) or A Major (Kerr). The parts are played AB (Gow,<br> Howe, Kerr, Lowe, MacDonald, Manson) or AA'BB' (Perlman).<br> This is a jig version of the<br> schottische setting<br> of "Orange and Blue" that appears in<br> MacKenzie’s National Dance Music of Scotland and other publications dating to the<br> early 19th century (such as Nathaniel Gow's Complete Repository Part 4 of 1817).<br> Samuel Bayard believed it to be an Orangeman or Protestant tune, associating the<br> title with the colors orange and blue of the flag of the Dutch House of Orange, one<br> of whose princes, William of Orange, became a king of England and champion of the<br> Protestant cause in the 17th century. William, 'King Billy', is variously revered<br> and vilified as the conqueror of Ireland in the 1670's.<br> The high notes in the B part are best played in third position on the fiddle. This<br> may be difficult for untrained folk fiddlers.<br> It was printed in G.H. Davidson's Davidson's Gems of Scottish Melody (c. 1830's),<br> Gow's Complete Repository, Part 4 (1817),<br> Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c.1867),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's),<br> Joseph Lowe's Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 4 (1844–1845),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> MacKenzie's National Dance Music of Scotland, Book 3 (1859),<br> Manson's Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1 (1844) and<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996).<br>
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