Annotation:Nether Bow has Vanished (The)

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NETHER BOW HAS VANISHED, THE. Scottish, Reel, Strathspey. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 104). The title refers to what was the last surviving gate in the medieval wall of old Edinburgh, the Nether Bow. It was originally constructed in the year 1369, and survived until 1764, when it was demolished.

Nether Bow has Vanished is also the name of a Scottish Country Dance (RSCDS Book 13).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (A Second Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances), 1768; p. 104.

Recorded sources: Puirt a Baroque - "Return of the Wanderer."

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