Comers of Largo

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Theme code Index	1H56 1H51H
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Slip/Hop Jig
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	9/8
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Henry Playford
Book/Manuscript title	Book:A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes
Tune and/or Page number	No. 19, p. 8
Year of publication/Date of MS	1700
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COMERS OF LARGO, A REELL (sic), THE. Scottish, Air (9/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Published in London by Henry Playford in his 1700 collection of Scottish dance music; it was the first use in print of the word reel for a tune title. The tune, however, is in an odd 9/8 time, not at all what we think of as a reel today but more akin to the triple-time hornpipe, states Emmerson (1971). The tune is incomplete, and since it is in 9/8, it is obviously not what we consider today to be a reel, though Alburger thinks it may have been inaccurately recorded from someone's playing.

Printed source: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 9, pp. 26-27. Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes), 1700; No. 19, p. 8.

X:1
T:Comers of Largo, The--A reell [sic]
M:9/4
L:1/8
B:Henry Playford - A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the 
B:Highland Humours) for the violin (London, 1700, No. 19, p. 8)
N:"Most of them being in the Compass of the Flute." 
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:D
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