Bridegroom Geits (The)

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Theme code Index	6632 2263
Also known as	Bridegroom Grat (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Nigel Gatherer
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Gatherer's Musical Museum
Tune and/or Page number	p. 27
Year of publication/Date of MS	1987
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BRIDEGROOM GEITS, THE. AKA - "The bridegroom grat." Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The basic strain was fitted by Lady Anne Lindsay to the words of her "Auld Robin Gray." However, notes Walker (1924), "it has now been completely supplanted by a nineteenth-century English production of vastly inferior quality." Walker goes on to decry the practice in that century of London composers deliberately composing pseudo-Scottish tunes, "a favourite industry."

Printed source: Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 27. Hamilton, Select Songs of Scotland, 1848.

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