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'''JOHN CHEAP THE CHAPMAN'''. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow, Kerr, Stewart-Robertson). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), fiddler, composer, music publisher and bandleader. Son of the famous Scots fiddler/composer Niel Gow. A chapman was a hawker or peddlar. | '''JOHN CHEAP THE CHAPMAN'''. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow, Kerr, Stewart-Robertson). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), fiddler, composer, music publisher and bandleader. Son of the famous Scots fiddler/composer Niel Gow. A chapman was a hawker or peddlar, and, indeed the title refers to a volume by Dougal Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougal_Graham] (c. 1724-1779), one of the most famous chapmen, even though physically deformed and of rather small stature. He wrote numerous very popular chapbooks (under assumed names), one of which was entitled '''A History of John Cheap, the Chapman.''' He was a contemporary of Nathaniel Gow's father, Niel Gow (1727-1807). | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
JOHN CHEAP THE CHAPMAN. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow, Kerr, Stewart-Robertson). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), fiddler, composer, music publisher and bandleader. Son of the famous Scots fiddler/composer Niel Gow. A chapman was a hawker or peddlar, and, indeed the title refers to a volume by Dougal Graham [1] (c. 1724-1779), one of the most famous chapmen, even though physically deformed and of rather small stature. He wrote numerous very popular chapbooks (under assumed names), one of which was entitled A History of John Cheap, the Chapman. He was a contemporary of Nathaniel Gow's father, Niel Gow (1727-1807).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 447. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 13. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 21, No. 6, p. 13. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection, 1884; p. 189. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 35.
Recorded sources: Culburnie CUL 113D, Alasdair Fraser & Tony MacManus - "Return to Kintail" (1999).