Annotation:Highway to Colain (The)

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HIGHWAY TO COLAIN, THE. Scottish, Slip Jig (9/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in John Riddell's 1782 collection (p. 18). Riddell (1718-1795) of Ayrshire, was a music teacher and is believed to have been blind from infancy. He is credited with composing the air of "Jenny's Bawbee" and several well-known dance tunes. Riddell was associated with another Ayrshire fiddler-composer, John McGill (b. 1705), who composed the tune associated with the song "Come Under My Plaidie."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: John Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c. for the Violin), 1782; p. 18..

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