Annotation:Captain MacIntosh (1)

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CAPTAIN MACINTOSH [1]. AKA - "Captain "McIntosh." English; March or Reel. A Major (Trim/Hardy): D Major (Kennedy) . Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kennedy): AAB (Trim): AABB (Mattson & Walz). "Captain Mackintosh" was published in Button & Whitaker's Pocket Collection of Favorite Marches, for Two German Flutes, Violins, or Fifes (London, 1806). It also appears in Samuel Holyoke's Instrumental Assistant, vol. 1 (pg. 31), published in 1800 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and in Wilson's Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816). In manuscript form it can be found in the Thomas Hardy family collection, Dorset England.

Source for notated version: Holyoke's Instrumental Assistant [Mattson & Walz].

Printed sources: Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 18, p. 6. Mattson & Walz (Old Fort Snelling), 1974; p. 55. Trim (Thomas Hardy), 1990; No. 95.

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Tune properties and standard notation