Annotation:Pass 'Round the Flagon

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PASS ROUND/ABOUT THE FLAGON (Ho! cuir a nall am bodach). Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. This "is the air of a most sentimental bacchanalian song by John MacMurdo or MacRae, of Kintail, formerly mentioned as having emigrated to America. It is well known, though the music of it has not till now been communicated; it is extreme.y difficult to give this air the expression which a sprightly singer imparts to it, when the sentiments echo and invigorate the strain of the air" (Fraser, 1816).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 207, p. 85. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 197.

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