Annotation:Kennet's Dream

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KENNET'S DREAM. Scottish, Air (3/4 time). AEac# tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in James Oswald's (1710-1796) Caledonian Pocket Companion (vol. 10, 1760, p. 20), printed in the key of 'C' as a slow air with variations (including a jig-time setting). Oswald was a composer and publisher of music, and a dancing master, much influenced by Continental music. A variant of the air is called "Old Head of Denis (The)," printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 29.

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