Annotation:Ploughman's Reel
X:1 T:Ploughman's Reel, The S:William Vickers music manuscript collection (1770, Northumberland) M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G (G/A/B/c/)dc BGGB|(G/A/B/c/) dB AFFA|(G/A/B/c/) dB ecdB|cAfc AFFA:| |:(B/c/d) gd BGGA|(B/c/d) gd AFFA|(B/c/d) gd ecdB|cAfc AFFA:|
PLOUGHMAN'S REEL. AKA and see "Clodun Reel," "Duke of Cumberland's Reel." English, Reel. England, Northumberland. G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was entered into the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria) as "Duke of Cumberland's Reel." The Duke, Prince William Augustus [1] (1721-1765), was in command of the British forces that defeated Prince Charles Stuart's army at the Battle of Culloden, 1746.
