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MISS MAY HAY. Scottish, Rant. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The piece meets the criteria for a rant, although the word does not appear in the title. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 20), one of his own compositions.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 158, p. 60. Dow (Thirty Seven New Reels and Strathspeys for the Violin), c. 1775; p. 20. Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 39, p. 134. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 255.

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-'''MISS MAY HAY'''. Scottish, Rant. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The piece meets the criteria for a rant, although the word does not appear in the title. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 20).
+'''MISS MAY HAY'''. Scottish, Rant. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The piece meets the criteria for a rant, although the word does not appear in the title. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 20), one of his own compositions.
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