Annotation:Lady Nelly Wemyss's Reel

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LADY NELLY WEMYSS/WEMYES'S JIG. AKA - "Lady Nelly Wemyss's Reel." Scottish, Jig. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bremner's title, "Lady Nelly Wemyss's Reel", describes the dance this 6/8 tune accompanies.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), 1757; p. 13. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 25. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 317, p. 35. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 177. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 134.

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