Annotation:Kiss Me Sweetly
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KISS ME SWEETLY. AKA - "Kiss Her Sweetly (2)." Scottish, Reel. C Major (Bremner, Gow, MacDonald): G Major (O'Neill). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB (Bremner, O'Neill). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, printed in London. As "Kiss Her Sweetly (2)" it appears in the 1770 music manuscript book of Northumbrian musician William Vickers, about whom unfortunately nothing is known.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels and Country Dances), 1757; p. 4. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 32. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 113. O'Neill (O'Neill's Irish Music), 1915; No. 110, p. 62.
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