Issue 293: different versions of "Return from India"

Object

Return from India (Tune)

Submitter

Lyle Ramshaw

Assigned to

Meinhard Reiser

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

You correctly list the tune “Return from India” as suggested for my dance “Magic of Merrill”. But you don’t warn your users that “Return from India” exists in two quite different versions! The version in Kerr, which you reference, is NOT the one that I suggest for “Magic of Merrill”. Instead, I suggest the Cape Breton version, as published, for example, on page 7 of the 5th edition of “Jerry Holland’s Fiddle Tunes”. The most important distinction between the two versions is that the A and B parts are swapped; but there are other differences as well. Perhaps you should enter the two versions of “Return from India” as two different tunes in your database; perhaps: “Return from India, Kerr version” and “Return from India, Jerry Holland version”.

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