View source for Annotation:Gin Thou Wert Mine Own Thing

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|f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Gin_Thou_Wert_Mine_Own_Thing >
|f_annotation='''GIN THOU WERT MINE OWN THING'''. AKA and see "[[Scotch Song (A)]]," "[[An Thou Were My Ain Thing]]." Scottish, English; Country Dance Tune and Air (whole time). A Mixolydian (Young): A Major (Manson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Manson). The melody, with variation sets, appears in [[biography:Alexander Stuart|Alexander Stuart]]'s '''Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection part 6''' (Edinburgh, c. 1724-26) and Scottish musician and writing master [[biography:David Young|David Young]]'s '''MacFarlane Manuscript''' (c. 1740, No. 17) as "An thou were my own thing". The air appears parodied in [[wikipedia:John Gay|John Gay]]'s '''Beggar's Opera''' (1729) under the title "[[Oh what pain it is to part]]."
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|f_printed_sources= Manson ('''Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book, vol. 2'''), 1846; p. 31. Oswald ('''Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 2'''), 1760; p. 16 (as "An thou wert my ain thing"). Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 55. Alexander Stuart ('''Musick for Allan Ramsay’s Collection part 6'''), Edinburgh, c. 1724; pp. 138-139.
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|f_see_also_listing=See a standard notation transcription of the melody from David Young's '''MacFarlane Manuscript''' (c. 1740) [http://www.rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/pdfs/an_thou_were_my_own_thing.pdf]<br>
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