Annotation:Miss Wedderburn's Reel (1)

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MISS WEDDERBURN('S REEL) [1]. AKA and see "Miss Jenny Wedderburn," “Burn o' Cairnie,” "Greenfields of America (1)," "Molly Brallaghan (1)," "Old Mother Flanagan," "Carpenter's March (The)," "Napoleon's Farewell to Paris," "Grand Conversatoin of Napoleon (The)," "Bold Sportsman (The)," "Captain Rock's (1)," "Captain Rocke’s (1)," "McKenna's Dream," "Pratie Apples," "Under the Rose." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (most versions): AABCCD (Gow). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 75). The melody has considerable currency among Cape Breton fiddlers and has been recorded often. Moyra Cowie (1999, The Life and Times of William Marshall) suggests Miss Wedderburn was perhaps the daughter of John Wedderburn, of Auchter House near Dundee. There was also a Jenny Wedderburn, the only daughter of Lord Chesterfield, who in 1761 married Major-General Sir Henry Erskine Bart. A daughter was born a year later.

Source for notated version: Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) [Brody].

Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler’s Fakebook), 1983; p. 194. Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 27, p. 12. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 27. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 248. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 25, No. 4, p. 15. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 1. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 76.

Recorded sources: Rounder 7008, "Jerry Holland" (1976). Carl MacKenzie "Welcome To Your Feet Again."

See also listings at:
Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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