Annotation:Miss Bruce (1)
X: 1 T: MISS BRUCE'S REEL T:Miss Bruce O: Irish Melody %R: jig B: Elias Howe "The Musician's Companion" Part 3 1844 p.71 #1 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musician's_Companion_(Howe,_Elias) Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/EliasHowe/MusiciansCompanionP3-1844-V2.abc K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (A/G/) |\ FAd dcd | Adf fef | afd afd | cee e2 A/G/ | FAd dcd | Adf fef | afd gec | ddd d2 :| |: f/g/ |\ afd dcB | ABA A2A | gab afd | cee e2 f/g/ | afd cBe | dce a2g | fga gec | ddd d2 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MISS BRUCE [1] (Ingean Ni Brusac). AKA – "Miss Bruce's Reel." AKA and see "Miss Jane Bruce's Jig." Irish, Jig (6/8). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Paul de Grae discovers that Howe/O'Neill's "Miss Bruce" is a nearly identical version of "Miss Jane Bruce's Jig" printed in Glasgow by James Aird. Boston music publisher Elias Howe's title (including his volume by 'Patrick O'Flannagan', a Howe pseudonym) was "Miss Bruce's Reel," despite the tune being in 6/8 time. Formerly, the name 'reel' in a title for a 6/8 tune often implied a winding dance figure, rather than being a metrical denotation, but the Howe title may have simply been originally a printers oversight that carried into his later publications.
