Annotation:I Love My Love in Secret
Tune properties and standard notation
I LOVE MY LOVE IN SEACREIT (Secret). Scottish, Scotch Measure (cut time). A Mixolydian: C Major (Hume, Playford): B Flat Major (McGibbon). AEac# tuning (fiddle). ABCDE. Appears in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance music (Original Scotch Tunes), the Hume MS. (1704), and in McGibbon's Scots Tunes in air minuet form.
Source for notated version: Bowie MS. (1705) [Johnson].
Printed sources: D. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 9, p. 26. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III), 1762; p. 66.
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