Collier's Lass (The)

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Theme code Index	3311 115L5L
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/2
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Henry Playford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes
Tune and/or Page number	No. 12, p. 5
Year of publication/Date of MS	1700
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COLLIER'S LASS, THE. Scottish, Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody was published in 1700 in London by Henry Playford in his collection of thirty-nine Scottish melodies. Later derivatives of the melody were "Coallier's Daughter (The)" (Gillespie Manuscript of Perth), "Collier's Daughter (The)", "Collier's Bonnie Lassie (The)," and the air for Burns' "Jock of Hazeldean."

Printed Source: Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes), 1700; No. 12, p. 5.

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T:Collier's Lass, The
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B:Henry Playford - A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the 
B:Highland Humours) for the violin (London, 1700, No. 12, p. 5)
N:"Most of them being in the Compass of the Flute." 
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
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