Annotation:Miss Babie Gray's Minuet
X:1 T:Miss Babie Gray’s Minuet for the Flute M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Minuet B: Daniel Dow – Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances (c. 1775, p. 29) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/106036365 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2 GGGG|GDGB d2|(3cde d2c2|(3BAG (3FGA G2| (3Bdc (3BAG (Td>c/2d/4)|(3gba (3gdg (Ta>g/2a/4)|bg2 d2B|B2 A4:| |:d2 g2 (Ta>g/2a/4)| bgdB G2|Bdgd T(d>c/2d/4)|BGBd D2| EcGEcE|(3AFD GBdg|(3edc B2TA2|G6:|
MISS BABIE GRAY'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by biography:Daniel Dow this minuet appears first in musician and dancing master James Gillespie's music manuscript collection (1768) as an untitled minuet. Several years later it appeared in Dow's Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances (c. 1775) under a patron's title.
