Annotation:Miss Maria Stewart's Jig

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MISS MARIA STEWART’S JIG. Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. There is no composer attribution in Border fiddler-composer biography:John Pringle's second collection (c. 1805). The first strain is shared with John Rook's "Light and Airy (5)" and the Thompsons' "Mistake (2) (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Pringle (A Second Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jiggs &c.), c. 1805.

Recorded sources: Rooster Records RSTR 122, Laurie Andres – “Fantastic Hornpipe” (1983. Appears as “Miss Marie Stewart’s Jig”). Iain MacPhail & His Band – "Argyll's Fancy" (1987).

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