Annotation:Stak in Vergo

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STAK IN VERGO. AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "Stalk en Vauraga," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician biography:John Bowie in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published by William Crotch as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Around the same time piper O'Farrell published a version of the tune in London in his Pocket Companion for the Union or Irish Pipes, vol. 1 (No. 126) as "Stalk en Vauraga."

Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" (Market Stake (The)").

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Stack in Virgo; McFadyen's Repos., c 1800 |3610|=|2430|: Irish; OFPC1

 126 |4073|,|2430|: The Market Stake; EB2 69 |4978|,|2430|: 
 Staughenvoragh; FSIM1 47 |5369|,|2430|: Market stake, The [for
 Moore's song, The dawning of morn]; SMIM8 #10, 1821