Annotation:Open the Door to Three (2)

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OPEN THE DOOR TO THREE [2]. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (9/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An elaboration and development of John Playford tune of the same name (see "Open the Door to Three (1)"). Dance instructions, but not the melody, for the tune can be found in the Menzies Manuscript, 1749, contained in the Atholl Collection of the Sandeman Library, Perth. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the melody in print in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 100), but it appears earlier in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 8 (1760). The title sounds descriptive of a country dance figure.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson ( Anderson's budget of strathspeys, reels & country dances), c. 1820; p. 35 [1]. Carlin (Gow Collection), 1976; No. 456. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 2), 1802; p. 16. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 8), 1760; p. 27.

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