Annotation:O dear Minnie what shall I do?: Difference between revisions

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O DEAR MINNIE/MOTHER (WHAT SHALL I DO)? AKA and see "Oh Dear Mother What Shall I Do?."

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-'''O DEAR MINNIE/MOTHER (WHAT SHALL I DO)?''' Scottish, Air (3/4 time) or Giga (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA. The melody appears in Allan Ramsay's ballad opera '''The Gentle Shepherd''' (1725), and in James Oswald's '''Curious Collection of Scots Tunes''' (c. 1739) {as the first air in a sonata, each movement of which is based on a Scots traditional tune}, and his '''Caledonian Pocket Companion''', Vols. iii (in an  air-jig-reel setting) and viii (1756). There is some difference of opinion on the origins of this tune. Gow ('''Complete Repository, Vol. 1''', p. 20) believes that this tune was derived from the duple time "[[Braes of Auchtertyre (1)]]," while Johnson-Stenhouse (2 vols.--'''The Scots Musical Museum''' and Stenhouse's '''Illustrations of the Lyric Poetry and Music of Scotland''', 1853 {reprint 1962}, p. 233) asserts it is the other-way-round, and that the 4/4 tune evolved out of the 3/4 one. Bayard (1981) agrees with Stenhouse.
+'''O DEAR MINNIE/MOTHER (WHAT SHALL I DO)?''' AKA and see "[[Oh Dear Mother What Shall I Do?]]."
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-''Printed sources'': Emmerson ('''Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String'''), 1971; No. 78, p. 157.
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