Annotation:Miss Betty MacDonald
X:1 T:Miss Betty MacDonald’s Reel M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Bremner – “For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances” (p. 99) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2 (DE/F/ G)DB,G,|GABG A/A/A A2|G2 T(F>EF/2) GG,G,c|BdAB G/G/G G2:| |:BcdB ecdB|cB AG =F/F/F A2|(Bdd)g ecdB|cAdB G/G/G G2| BcdB ecdB|cB AG =F/F/F A2|B(dd)g egdB|cAdB G/G/G G2||
MISS BETTY MACDONALD. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Biography:Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 99). Although there is a "Miss Betty MacDonald's Reel" published earlier in David Rutherford's Rutherford's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1760, p. 81).
