Annotation:Harriot (1) (The)

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HARRIOT [1], THE. Scottish, English; Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). C Major (Gow, Harding's, Rook): D Major (Perston, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune also appears in Entire New and Compleat Instructions for the Fife by John Preston (London, 1796, p. 29) and New and Complete Instructions for the Clarionet published by Preston and Son (London, 1797, p. 18). It was also entered into the 1840 music manuscript collection of multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria). It is a popular tune with modern fife-and-drum re-enactors.

There are other period tunes that bear the same title.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 54 (3rd ed.). Harding’s All Round Collection, 1905; No. 171, p. 54. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1964/1981; p. 58.

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