Annotation:Widow's Rant (The)

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WIDOW'S RANT, THE. AKA and see "Newsman (The)." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune turns up in one of the turn-of-the-20th century Harding Co. publications (New York) as "Newsman (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1), 1782; No. 27, p. 10.

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