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'''KISS ME FAST, MY MINNIE'S (Mother's) COMING'''. AKA and see "[[Bonny Jockey]]," "[[Kiss Me Suen My Minnie's Coming]]," "[[Quick March Scot's Royals]]." Scottish, English; Jig. England, Northumberland. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Aird, Gow): AABB' (Athole). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 14). James Aird included it in his '''Selection of Scotch, English Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1''' (1782, No. 156, p. 54, as "Quick March Scot's Royals"), printed in Glasgow (as well as a reprise printing in in vol. 2, 1785 as "Kiss Me Fast..."). Despite Glen's inference for a Scottish provenance, English printings are considerably older: it appears in Walsh's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master''' (London, 1735) and in (Daniel) '''Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2''', published by John Johnson (London). The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800. | '''KISS ME FAST, MY MINNIE'S (Mother's) COMING'''. AKA and see "[[Boll of Bear]]," "[[Bonny Jockey]]," "[[Bowl of Bigg]]," "[[Kiss Me Suen My Minnie's Coming]]," "[[Quick March Scot's Royals]]." Scottish, English; Jig. England, Northumberland. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Aird, Gow): AABB' (Athole). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 14). James Gillespie entered the jig in his 1768 manuscript collection under the title "[[Boll of Bear]]," while Glasgow publisher James Aird included it in his '''Selection of Scotch, English Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1''' (1782, No. 156, p. 54, as "Quick March Scot's Royals"), printed in Glasgow (as well as a reprise printing in in vol. 2, 1785 as "Kiss Me Fast..."). Despite Glen's inference for a Scottish provenance, English printings are considerably older: it appears in Walsh's '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master''' (London, 1735) and in (Daniel) '''Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2''', published by John Johnson (London). The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800, and a Northumbrian version can be found in William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection as "[[Bowl of Bigg]]." | ||
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KISS ME FAST, MY MINNIE'S (Mother's) COMING. AKA and see "Boll of Bear," "Bonny Jockey," "Bowl of Bigg," "Kiss Me Suen My Minnie's Coming," "Quick March Scot's Royals." Scottish, English; Jig. England, Northumberland. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Aird, Gow): AABB' (Athole). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 14). James Gillespie entered the jig in his 1768 manuscript collection under the title "Boll of Bear," while Glasgow publisher James Aird included it in his Selection of Scotch, English Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1 (1782, No. 156, p. 54, as "Quick March Scot's Royals"), printed in Glasgow (as well as a reprise printing in in vol. 2, 1785 as "Kiss Me Fast..."). Despite Glen's inference for a Scottish provenance, English printings are considerably older: it appears in Walsh's Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing Master (London, 1735) and in (Daniel) Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2, published by John Johnson (London). The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800, and a Northumbrian version can be found in William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection as "Bowl of Bigg."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 99, p. 36. Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 27. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 526. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; p. 37. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 137.
Recorded sources: