Annotation:Peggy's Wedding (1)

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PEGGY'S WEDDING [1]. English, Scottish; Jig (6/8 time). D Major (Gunn, Kennedy, Raven): C Major (Athole, Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB (Athole, Gunn, Kennedy, Raven). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection; it also is contained in the 1768 [James] Gillespie Collection of Perth.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 54 (appears as “Peggie’s Wedding”). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 401. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 3), 1806; p. 21. William Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes), Glasgow, 1848; p. 89. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867, No. 4, p. 2. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2), 1954; p. 35. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 106. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 110.

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