Annotation:Miss May Hay

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MISS MAY HAY. Scottish, Rant. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The piece meets the criteria for a rant, although the word does not appear in the title. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 20).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 158, p. 60. Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 39, p. 134. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 255.

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