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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 the Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. IV (London, c. 1780), the 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). The famous Dunkeld, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Niel Gow included it in his 2nd Collection (1788) in a section headed: "The Following are a few of the most Fashionalbe Dance's Danced at Edinburgh in 1787 and -88." The country dance tune 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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