Annotation:Biddy Brading

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BIDDY BRADING. Irish?, Scottish?; Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The first strain is cognate with the first strain of "Over the Moor to Peggy (1);" the second strains of the tune are also harmonically similary, but melodically less so, although may be cognate. See also the first strain of "Kitty in the Lane (1)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Alexander (Alexander’s Fifty New Scotch & Irish Reels & Hornpipes), c. 1826; No. 48, p. 23.

Recorded sources:

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