Annotation:Mr. Will's Favourite

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MR. WILL'S FAVOURITE. Scottish, Country Dance (2/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune first appears in fiddler-composer Daniel McLaren's (Taymouth, Perthshire) Collection of Strathspey Reels, etc., published at Edinburgh in 1794. The country dance tune was reprinted by James Aird in 1796 on a page with two other tunes from the McLaren collection, "Bodachan a Garidh" and "Dalnaglare's Rant."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 190, p. 71. McLaren (Collection of Strathspey Reels, etc.), 1794; p. 18.

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