Footnote
given in Jerry Holland's Collection:
One of the most
popular reels of all time, Caper Fey, has spawned many
different settings, titles and variants. Jerry learned
this pipe setting from Mike MacDougall. He also plays
the original Scottish, key of C, two turn reel
setting.
Modern Scottish
pipers generally play it as a four turn strathspey. In
Robert Bremner's 2nd Collection (1768), there were
also four turns, but in the key of C, with both F
natural and F sharp accidentals. The grouping of
sixteenth notes in Bremner's variations makes one
suspect that this might have been a
strathspey.
Over the years the
most popular Scottish setting has been as a reel in
the key of C (see Skye Collection or Winston
Fitzgerald, Classic Cuts)
When Irish pipers
adapted it to the scale available on their instrument,
it became Rakish Paddy (O'Neill's Music of Ireland,
1903). Also from 20th century Ireland (first
published in Allan's Collection by Hugh McDermott), is
another 1st cousin, a popular reel in key of G, known
as The Copperplate.
Other
Examples of Music
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