Annotation:New Brig of Glasgow (The)

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NEW BRIG OF GLASGOW, THE. AKA and see "Cumberland Reel," "Miss Nancy Gibson." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB (Cole): AAB (Howe): AA'B (Gatherer). An anonymous tune commemorating the opening of a new bridge in Glasgow which was completed in 1768. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Joshua Campbell's A Collection of the Newest Reels and Minuets (1778, p. 24). Edinburgh publishers Gow and Shepherd printed the tune under the title "The Cumberland Reel, or Miss Nancy Gibson" as a single sheet issued around 1800, finds Nigel Gatherer.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 125. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 35. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 156. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 165.

Recorded sources: Folkways FW08847_203, Richard Carlin - "The Poppy Leaf: English Concertina Tunes" (1978).



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