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NOTTINGHAM RACES. English Scottish; Reel or Scots Measure. D Major (McGlashan, Thompson): G Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The reel appears in several publications on or about the year 1780, including the London publishing firms of Thompson and Skillern, and in the Scottish collections of James Aird and Alexander McGlashan.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 113, p. 41. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 23. Skillern (Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances), 1780; p. 24. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 4), 1780; p. 97.

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