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MERRY LADS OF AYR/AIR/AYER. AKA and see "Lads of Ayr/Lads of Air (The)." Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major (Cole, Howe): C Major (most versions). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cole, Seatle/Vickers, Surenne): AAB (Alburger, Athole, Gow, Milne): AABB (Bremner, Howe, Riddell). A still-popular reel composed by the amateur fiddle-composer Biography:John Riddell of the family of Glencarnock at Ayr (1718-95), who may or may not have been blind from birth. It was first published (without credit to Riddell) by Robert Bremner in 1757 (p. 15), and later appeared in Riddell's c. 1776 A Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, etc. (p. 10). Emmerson (1971) states that the tune is "obviously a set of a tune, 'The Lads of Ayr,' which appears in the Bodleian MS," and, indeed, a manuscript version predates Bremner's published collection, the aforementioned Bodleian Manuscript by David Young (1740). A version appears in vol. 4 of the mid-19th century music manuscript of Church of Ireland cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman under the title "Ayrshire Lasses (3)."

The Merry Lads of Ayr is also the name of a Scottish country dance, taught by, for one, 'Professor' Blackley of Lanard (1859-1943) mainly in Dumfriesshire (Flett & Flett, 1964). See also note for "Annotation:Lads of Ayr."

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 85, p. 138. Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 15. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 45. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 19. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 47. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's, No. 75. Laybourn (Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 3), 1885; p. 236. Milne (Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin), 1870; p. 2. John Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets & c. for the Violin), c. 1782; p. 10. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 72. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 61. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 355 (appears as "Lads of Ayr"). Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 7.

Recorded sources: -Atlantica Music 02 77657 50222 26, Dave MacIssac - "Atlantic Fiddles" (1994). UCCB Press 1007, Dave MacIssac - "Celtic Music of Cape Breton, vol. 1" (1986).

See also listings at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]

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-'''MERRY LADS OF AYR/AIR/AYER.''' AKA and see "[[Lads of Ayr]]/[[Lads of Air (The)]]." Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major (Cole, Howe): C Major (most versions). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cole, Seatle/Vickers, Surenne): AAB (Alburger, Athole, Gow, Milne): AABB (Bremner, Howe, Riddell). A still-popular reel composed by the amateur fiddle-composer [[Biography:John Riddell]] of the family of Glencarnock at Ayr (1718-95), who may or may not have been blind from birth. It was first published (without credit to Riddell) by Robert Bremner in 1757 (p. 15), and later appeared in Riddell's c. 1776 '''A Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, etc.''' (p. 10). Emmerson (1971) states that the tune is "obviously a set of a tune, 'The Lads of Ayr,' which appears in the Bodleian MS," and, indeed, a manuscript version predates Bremner's published collection, the aforementioned '''Bodleian Manuscript''' by David Young (1740).
+'''MERRY LADS OF AYR/AIR/AYER.''' AKA and see "[[Lads of Ayr]]/[[Lads of Air (The)]]." Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major (Cole, Howe): C Major (most versions). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cole, Seatle/Vickers, Surenne): AAB (Alburger, Athole, Gow, Milne): AABB (Bremner, Howe, Riddell). A still-popular reel composed by the amateur fiddle-composer [[Biography:John Riddell]] of the family of Glencarnock at Ayr (1718-95), who may or may not have been blind from birth. It was first published (without credit to Riddell) by Robert Bremner in 1757 (p. 15), and later appeared in Riddell's c. 1776 '''A Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, etc.''' (p. 10). Emmerson (1971) states that the tune is "obviously a set of a tune, 'The Lads of Ayr,' which appears in the Bodleian MS," and, indeed, a manuscript version predates Bremner's published collection, the aforementioned '''Bodleian Manuscript''' by David Young (1740). A version appears in vol. 4 of the mid-19th century music manuscript of Church of Ireland cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman under the title "[[Ayrshire Lasses (3)]]."
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