Annotation:Galloway Tom (1)

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GALLOWAY TOM [1]. AKA - "Gallaway Tom," "Gallway Tom," "Galway Tom." Scottish, English; Jig. England, Northumberland. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The name Galloway comes from the Gaelic Gall Gaidel, meaning 'the land of the stranger Gaels,' but galloway is also a Scots dialect word meaning 'pony'. This tune has no musical relation to the Irish "Galloway Tom (2)." The melody first appears in print in Walsh's Third Book of the Complete Dancing Master (London, 1735, with a later edition of 1749), (Daniel) Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances (London, 1740), and James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760). As a song it is included in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (vol. 4, 1792, No. 325). The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. London musician Thomas Hammersley copied it into his music manuscript, as did William Vickers [1] in 1770. In America, "Galloway Tom" appears in the music manuscript copybooks of flute player Henry Beck (1786) and fiddler George Beck (1790, Cherry Vally, N.Y.). "Galloway Tom [1]" is a different tune than the Irish "Galway Tom," but is related to "Over the Hills and Far Awa'".

Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music manuscript collection [Seattle].

Printed sources: Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 395. Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances), c. 1745; p. 89. Wright (Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances), 1740; p. 54.

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