Annotation:Miss C. Ramsay’s Fancy

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MISS C. RAMSAY'S FANCY. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). E Flat Major (Watlen): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABA. The tune was first published in John Watlen's The Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791), a title that references Edinburgh's Royal Circus, an extension of Phillip Astley's Royal Circus in London. Watlen

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 95, p. 38. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 13.

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