MacArthur
Road was written in the key
of E major by
Dave Richardson for John and Margaret MacArthur of
Marboro Vermont, longtime friends of The Boys of the
Lough. Natalie MacMaster recordied it in that key with
Sharon Shannon on Natalie's CD In
My Hands. Like his
other famous composition, the jig
Calliope
House, many
traditional players shifted it to the more universal key
of D. Kinnon Beaton learned it at a festival in Scotland
from pipers Finn and Duncan Moore. Kinnon plays it on his
CD Saturday
Night Lively
abcs.
Other Examples of Music Notation
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