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|f_annotation='''STAK IN VERGO.''' AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician [[biography:John Bowie]] in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published by William Crotch<ref>William Crotch, '''Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London''', vol. 1, London, 1807.</ref>
|f_annotation='''STAK IN VERGO.''' AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician [[biography:John Bowie]] in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published by William Crotch<ref>William Crotch, '''Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London''', vol. 1, London, 1807.</ref> as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" ([[Market Stake (The)]]").
# <span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑</span> <span class="reference-text">William Crotch, '''Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London''', vol. 1, London, 1807.</span>
as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" ([[Market Stake (The)]]").
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 29.
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 29.


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STAK IN VERGO. AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician biography:John Bowie in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published by William Crotch[1] as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" (Market Stake (The)").


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Printed sources : - John Bowie (Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 29.






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  1. William Crotch, Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London, vol. 1, London, 1807.