Comely Garden

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Theme code Index	331H5 67b27bL, 331H1H 67b2bL
Also known as	Camley Garden
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Donald Dow
Region	England, Scotland
Genre/Style	English, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance, Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Mixolydian
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Preston
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1794
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Year of publication/Date of MS	1794
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COMELY GARDEN. Scottish (originally), English; Reel and Country Dance. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. One of the most celebrated compositions by Donald (sometimes Daniel) Dow (1732-83) originally of Kirkmichael, Perthshire. John Glen (1891) believes the earliest printing of the tune in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 10), although it had appeared earlier in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). It is one of the "missing tunes" from William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript and was also later published by the Gows. In the opinion of Mr. Troup of Ballater (as cited by David Baptie in Musical Scotland, Past and Present, 1894, p. 46) "Comely Garden" is among the dozen or so of Dow's best compositions. The tune (as "Camley Garden") was printed with country dance directions in Preston's 1793 collection.

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 410. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; p. 24. Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 2, 1881-1885, p. 119. Preston (Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 13.

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