Annotation:I Love My Love in Secret
Tune properties and standard notation
I LOVE MY LOVE IN SEACREIT (Secret). Scottish, Scotch Measure (cut time). A Mixolydian: C Major (Hume, Playford): B Flat Major (McGibbon). AEac# tuning (fiddle). ABCDE. Appears in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance music (Collection Original Scotch Tunes, p. 2), the Hume MS. (1704), James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760, vol. 2, pp. 26-27), and in McGibbon's Scots Tunes (1762) in air minuet form. It also appears in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 6 (1790, p. 213).
Source for notated version: Bowie MS. (1705) [Johnson].
Printed sources: D. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 9, p. 26. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 66.
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