Annotation:Highland King
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HIGHLAND KING. Scottish, Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The air was turned into a song called "Ye muses nine, O lend your aid," printed in the Scots Nightingale (2nd edition, 1779). Stenhouse noted the song was printed on song sheets, "and did not appear in any regular collection until the publication of Wilson's St. Cecilia at Edinburgh in 1779.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 11), c. 1760; p. 130.
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