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'''DEAL STICK THE MINISTER [1]'''. Scottish, Dance Tune (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Printed in Henry Playford's '''Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes''' (London, 1700, p. 16), a collection of Scottish dance tunes. "(It) is still as well-known as it was in 1683 when a Stirling man was 'tried for reviling a parson,' in causing the piper play 'The Deil Stick the Minister'. Sundry pipers were there present as witnesses, to declare it was the name of ane spring'" (Alburger, 1983). | '''DEAL STICK THE MINISTER [1]'''. Scottish, Dance Tune (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Printed in Henry Playford's '''Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes''' (London, 1700, p. 16), a collection of Scottish dance tunes. "(It) is still as well-known as it was in 1683 when a Stirling man was 'tried for reviling a parson,' in causing the piper play 'The Deil Stick the Minister'. Sundry pipers were there present as witnesses, to declare it was the name of ane spring'" (Alburger, 1983). See "[[De'il Stick the Minister (2)]]" for a later 18th century development of the tune, set in duple meter. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
DEAL STICK THE MINISTER [1]. Scottish, Dance Tune (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Printed in Henry Playford's Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes (London, 1700, p. 16), a collection of Scottish dance tunes. "(It) is still as well-known as it was in 1683 when a Stirling man was 'tried for reviling a parson,' in causing the piper play 'The Deil Stick the Minister'. Sundry pipers were there present as witnesses, to declare it was the name of ane spring'" (Alburger, 1983). See "De'il Stick the Minister (2)" for a later 18th century development of the tune, set in duple meter.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 7, p. 25.
Recorded sources: