Annotation:Waterman (1) (The)

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WATERMAN, THE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 58). The 6/8 tune was also entered into the music manuscript collections of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Wavery, Cumbria, 1840) and of American musician M.E. Eames (1859, p. 71, perhaps from Philadelphia). Eames's second strain diverges in parts from the original.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 1780; p. 15.

Recorded sources:

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