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MONRO'S RANT, THE. AKA and see "Larickille," "Peep o' Day (2)." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Angus Cumming's 1780 collection (p. 15). Although the also found the "earliest appearance" of the melody in Alexander McGlashan's collection (under the title "Larickville") of about the same year. Robert Petrie printed the strathspey as "Peep a Day/Peep o' Day (2)" in his Third Collection (c. 1800).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Aird's 6th and Last Volume of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1803; p. 15. Cummings (Collection of Strathspeys or Old Highland Reels), 1780; p. 15. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 158-159.

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