Annotation:Over the Moor to Maggie (3)

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OVER THE MOOR TO MAGGIE [3]. Scottish, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. A melody by this name is contained in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth, and a number of other 18th century collections, but the earliest printing is in Alexander Stuart's Musick for Allan Ramsey's Collection of Scots Songs (Edinburgh, 1724).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II), 1785; No. 192, p. 72. Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 7), 1760; p. 16.

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