Yes I've known the background on Paresis. Actually the very best
recording of this tune is in my opnion Angus Chisholm's home recording
of it in 1954. Another very typical Cape Breton tune that Kevin Burke
plays a nice setting of is Paddy on the Turnpike. He plays the "first
version". :-)
Mike McGeary wrote:
> Toby Rider wrote: "...'Paresis", a pretty popular tune in Cape Breton, esp.
> among the great players of the last generation, like Winston Fitzgerald and
> Angus Chisholm.... I think Paresis is a tune from the 'New World.'"
>
> The tune is in Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes (Cranford
> Publications, 1977), p. 65. According to the notation, "A favorite of Angus
> Chisholm, the tune Paresis comes from The Harding Collection, an early 20th
> century American publication which was widely distributed in Eastern Canada
> and Newfoundland. The melody is related to an 18th century strathspey, Lady
> Dalrymple, by Robert MacIntosh. The Irish reel setting of that strrathspey
> is found in O'Neill's Music of Ireland and is known as The Sailor's Return."
>
> Natalie MacMaster recorded it recently on My Roots Are Showing.
>
> Mike McGeary
>
>
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