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Revision as of 18:53, 24 January 2012
BRIDGE OF PERTH, THE. Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Gow, McGlashan, Skye): AABB (Athole). Composed by Daniel Dow, probably to commemorate the opening of the Tay bridge at Perth, completed in 1772. The tune was first published the following year. John Glen (1891) finds the tune first printed in Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 9).
Printed source: Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 28. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 15. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 27. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 23. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 51.
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