Annotation:Parks of Kilburnie (The)
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PARKS OF KILBURN(IE), THE. AKA and see "Parks of Fochabers (The)." English, Scottish; Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, however, it appears earlier in London publisher John Walsh's Country Dances Selected, Part 1 (1748), printed with country dance directions. London publisher David Rutherford also printed the tune around 1760. The Gows later re-titled the reel as "Parks of Fochabers" in Complete Repository Part 3 (1806).
Source for notated version: William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian music manuscript collection [1] [Seattle].
Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 3. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 1), 1891; p. 12. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 492. Rutherford (Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol 2), c. 1760; p. 85. Walsh (Country Dances Selected, Part 1), 1748; p. 6.
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