Annotation:Over the Moor to Betty (1)

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OVER THE MOOR TO BETTY. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "This has some similarity with 'O'er the Muir to Ketty' (in one of Gow's collections), but Gow's version, a Scotch Measure, has Vickers' note values expanded so that one bar in Vickers is equivalent to two in Gow's" (Seattle).

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [1] (Northumberland) [Seattle].

Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 410.

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