Annotation:Sir William Hope's Scotch-measure

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X:1 T:Sir William Hope's Scotch-measure M:C| L:1/8 B:Henry Playford - A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the B:Highland Humours) for the violin (London, 1700, No. 13, p. 6) N:"Most of them being in the Compass of the Flute." Z:AK/FIddler's Companion K:D dA|F2d2d2a2|f3e decA|FADE Ffed|c2e2e2 fg| agfe cAFA|dBGB ecAf/g/|afge fdeA|F2d2d2|| fg|abag fgfe|f2a2a2 DE|FAFA BGBd|c2e2e2 fg| afdB ecAF|dBGE cAFD|FBAd ceEA|F2D2D2||

SIR WILLIAM HOPE'S SCOTCH-MEASURE. Scottish, Scotch-Measure (Reel). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune appears in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance music. The collection contains the first mention of the term 'Scotch Measure' in print.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Playford (A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, Full of the B:Highland Humours for the violin), London, 1700; No. 13, p. 6.

Recorded sources: -

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