Annotation:Miss MacDonald’s (4)
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MISS MACDONALD’S (REEL) [4]. AKA – "Miss McDonald's Reel." AKA and see “Charlie if Only You Would Come,” “Charlie's Welcome (2),” "Fourth of June (The)," “Thearlaich na’n Tigeadh Tu,” “Flora MacDonald,” “MacDonald’s Quickstep,” “MacDonald’s Reel (2),” “Miss Flora McDonald’s Reel,” “Miss Macdonald’s Rant.” Scottish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was published in London by John Walsh under the title "Fourth of June (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:
Cooke’s Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances, Dublin, 1796 (as "Miss McDonald's Reel").
Longman and Broderip (Compleat Collection of 200 Favorite Country Dances), 1781; p. 52.
McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 29.
Recorded sources: