The Mummer's Jig
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Mummer's Jig", also known as "Miss Chaloner's Fancy" is an Irish jig in G Major.<br> The parts are played AABB.<br> The tune was published in 1801 as "Miss Chaloner’s Fancy". It appears in Darley &<br> McCall’s Feis Ceoil Collection of Traditional Irish Music (1914, reprinted as the<br> Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music) as the jig part of the piece<br> "The Mummer’s Jig and Reel".<br> The mummer, in the Britiain and Ireland, is a performer in an amateur acting company,<br> traditionally all male, who perform stylized plays in costume at Boxing Day and other<br> holidays.<br> It was printed in<br> Bancalari's Celtic Encyclopedia, Mandolin Edition (1999).<br>
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