Annotation:Leith Wynd

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LEITH WYND. Scottish, English; Reel. England, Northumberland. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. Leith Wynd was a steep narrow Edinburgh street which led to the port of Leith, "and thence to the world at large" (Johnson, 1983). The tune was set ("in a strong sea-shanty flavour") by William McGibbon (c. 1695-1756) and appears in his Scots Tunes; it is close to an earlier setting appearing in Adam Craig's Scots Tunes (1730, p. 16), but McGibbon improved the variations. The title also appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes ("The Northern Minstrel's Budget"), which he published c. 1800, and in Allan Ramsay's ballad opera Gentle Shepherd of 1725.

Source for notated version: McGibbon's Scots Tunes, 1742, vol. 1, p. 11 [Johnson].

Printed sources: Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 17, pp. 42-43. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; pp. 82-83.

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