Annotation:Lady Betty Cochrane's Reel (1)
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LADY BETTY COCHRANE [1]. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 (p. 72) and Daniel Dow's c. 1775 (p. 4) collections, although it also appears in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection. The tune appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 72. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), c. 1880's; No. 99, p. 13. Mulhollan (Selection of Irish and Scots Tunes), Edinburgh, 1804; p. 29. Straight (24 Favourite Dances for the Year 1783), 1783; p. 4.
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