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MERRY PLOWMAN, THE. English (?), Country Dance Tune or March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to its appearance in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785), the melody was published in Gilfert's Gentleman's Pocket Companion for the German Flute or Violin (New York, 1802), and in the 1782 music manuscript commonplace book of Elisha Belknap (Framingham, Mass.). As "The Merry Ploughman" is was a number in Caw's stage production The Shepherd's Wedding (Edinburgh, 1789). Drum notation appears in a few American musicians' manuscripts c. 1792-1819, indicating it was employed as a march.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 41, p. 15.

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-'''MERRY PLOWMAN, THE.''' English (?), Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB.
+'''MERRY PLOWMAN, THE.''' English (?), Country Dance Tune or March (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. In addition to its appearance in Glasgow publisher James Aird's '''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2''' (1785), the melody was published in Gilfert's '''Gentleman's Pocket Companion for the German Flute or Violin''' (New York, 1802), and in the 1782 music manuscript commonplace book of Elisha Belknap (Framingham, Mass.). As "The Merry Ploughman" is was a number in Caw's stage production '''The Shepherd's Wedding''' (Edinburgh, 1789). Drum notation appears in a few American musicians' manuscripts c. 1792-1819, indicating it was employed as a march.
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