Annotation:Wright's Rant
X:1 T:Wright’s Rant M:6/8 L:1/8 B:David Young – “A Collection of Scotch Airs with the latest Variations” (AKA - The B:McFarlane Manuscript (c. 1741, No. 228, p. 274) F: https://rmacd.com/music/macfarlane-manuscript/collection/pdfs/wright_s_rant.pdf N:The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland K:A cAA eAA|cAA Te2 (d/c/)|dBB fBB|dBB Tf2e| cAA eAA|cAA Te2c|d2d (de)f|(f/g/a)c TB2A:| |:cAA e(f/g/a)|cAA Te2c|dBB f/g/a/g/f/e/|dBB Tf2e| cBB f/g/a/f/g/e/|cAA Te2c|(de)d (ef)g|(f/g/a)c TB2A:|]
WRIGHT'S RANT. AKA and see "Piper's Son (2) (The)," “Stool of Repentance (The).” Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. The tune also appears under this title in Aird’s Airs and Melodies, vol. 1. Glasgow piper, pipe teacher and pipe-maker William Gunn printed the tune in his Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes (1848) as "Iain Mac a Phìpir/Piper's Son (2) (The)." The first strain of "Wright's Rant" is the same as the second strain of "Stool of Repentance (The)."