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'''JENNY DRINKS NAE WATER'''. Scottish, Scottish Measure or Country Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in the '''Skene Manuscript''' (c. 1615-20), and in John Young's '''Collection of Original Scotch Tunes''' (1720, p. 13, as "Janett Drinks No Watter"). Presumably Jenny drinks whiskey instead. Franz Joseph Haydn composed a setting of the air [Hob. Xxxia:132] for voice, violin, cello and keyboard in his '''Scottish Songs for William Napier.''' See also "[[I'll mak you fain]]." | '''JENNY DRINKS NAE WATER'''. AKA - "Jennet Drinks no Water." Scottish, Scottish Measure or Country Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in the '''Skene Manuscript''' (c. 1615-20, as "Jennet Drinks no Water"), and in John Young's '''Collection of Original Scotch Tunes''' (1720, p. 13, as "Janett Drinks No Watter"). Presumably Jenny drinks whiskey instead. Franz Joseph Haydn composed a setting of the air [Hob. Xxxia:132] for voice, violin, cello and keyboard in his '''Scottish Songs for William Napier.''' See also "[[I'll mak you be fain]]." | ||
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JENNY DRINKS NAE WATER. AKA - "Jennet Drinks no Water." Scottish, Scottish Measure or Country Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air appears in the Skene Manuscript (c. 1615-20, as "Jennet Drinks no Water"), and in John Young's Collection of Original Scotch Tunes (1720, p. 13, as "Janett Drinks No Watter"). Presumably Jenny drinks whiskey instead. Franz Joseph Haydn composed a setting of the air [Hob. Xxxia:132] for voice, violin, cello and keyboard in his Scottish Songs for William Napier. See also "I'll mak you be fain."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune-Book), 1853; p. 104. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 5 (appears as "Janie Drinks nae Water". Various dates are given for the volume, from 1778 to 1781). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 149.
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