Talk:Mrs. Biggs of Newcastle's Delight
Tune properties and standard notation
MRS. BIGGS (OF NEWCASTLE'S) DELIGHT. Scottish, Stathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA. The air appears in Watlen's collection of Celebrated Circus Tunes (1791) with the note "The celebrated Strathspey Minuet as danced by Mr. Lassells and Mrs. Parker at the Royal Circus, London and Edinburgh" (the Strathspey Minuet was a couple dance performed to a strathspey).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 66, p. 154.
Recorded sources: