Annotation:Inverness Scots Measure (The)

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INVERNESS SCOTS MEASURE, THE. AKA and see "McLauchlanes Scottish Measure." Scottish, Scots Measure (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The melody, a Scots Measure (a type of reel), was printed James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 6 (1760, p. 28). It was also included in the c. 1788 music copybook of flute player Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Older versions appear as "McLauchlanes Scottish Measure" (or a variant spelling) in Henry Playford's Original Scots Tunes and the Balcarres MS., both dating to the year 1700.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 94, p. 35. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 6), 1760; p. 28.

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