Annotation:Inverness Scots Measure (The)

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INVERNESS SCOTS MEASURE, THE. AKA and see "McLauchlin's Scots Measure." Scottish, Scots Measure (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The melody appears in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 6 (1760, p. 28). It was also included in the c. 1788 music copybook of flute player Thomas Molyneaux, of Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 94, p. 35.

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