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'''LITTLE MEN OF THE MEARNS.''' Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection (p. 20). The parts are not even: the first strain has four measures (repeated), while the second has six. 'Little Men of the Mearns' was a proverbial expression dating to the 18th century, and perhaps refers to a middle class of tenants that was emerging between the landowners and small tenants in the region of East Renfrewshire, south of Glasgow. No one knows the origin of the name, but it has been suggested that it derives from the Gaelic ''an mhaorine'', or a 'stewardry'. | '''LITTLE MEN OF THE MEARNS.''' Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection (p. 20). The parts are not even: the first strain has four measures (repeated), while the second has six. 'Little Men of the Mearns' was a proverbial expression dating to the 18th century, and perhaps refers to a middle class of tenants that was emerging between the landowners and small tenants in the region of East Renfrewshire, south of Glasgow. No one knows the origin of the name, but it has been suggested that it derives from the Gaelic ''an mhaorine'', or a 'stewardry'. | ||
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''Printed sources'': McGlashan ('''A Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), c. 1780/81; p. 20. Robert Mackintosh ('''A fourth book of new strathspey reels, also some famous old reels'''), 1802; p. 42. | ''Printed sources'': McGlashan ('''A Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), c. 1780/81; p. 20. Robert Mackintosh ('''A fourth book of new strathspey reels, also some famous old reels'''), 1802; p. 42. | ||
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LITTLE MEN OF THE MEARNS. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection (p. 20). The parts are not even: the first strain has four measures (repeated), while the second has six. 'Little Men of the Mearns' was a proverbial expression dating to the 18th century, and perhaps refers to a middle class of tenants that was emerging between the landowners and small tenants in the region of East Renfrewshire, south of Glasgow. No one knows the origin of the name, but it has been suggested that it derives from the Gaelic an mhaorine, or a 'stewardry'.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGlashan (A Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 20. Robert Mackintosh (A fourth book of new strathspey reels, also some famous old reels), 1802; p. 42.
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