Annotation:Lady Nelly Wemyss's Reel
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LADY NELLY WEMYSS/WEMYES'S JIG. AKA - "Lady Wemyss," "Lady Nellie Wemyss," "Lady Nelly Wemyss," "Lady Nelly Wemyss's Reel." Scottish, Jig. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearence of this tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (p. 13). 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. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 20. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; p. 25. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 317, p. 35. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 229, p. 26. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 177. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 134.
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