Annotation:Peggy's Wedding (1)

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X: 1 T: Peggie's Wedding [1] R: jig B: Robert Bremner, A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances, 1757, p. 54, #2 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Reels_or_Country_Dances_(Bremner,_Robert) Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/RobertBremner/CSRCD1.abc K: C % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 1 |:\ cdc c2c | ceg gec | cdc cdc | Bcd dBG | cdc c2c | ceg gec | fgf efe | Bcd dBG :| |:\ cdc g2c | e2c g2c | cdc g2c | Bcd dBG | cdc gcc | ecc gcc | afd gec | Bcd dBG :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 2 clef=bass middle=d |:\ c3 c3 | c3 c3 | c3 c3 | G3 G3 | c3 c3 | c3 c3 | c3 c3 | G3 G3 :| |:\ c3 c3 | c3 c3 | c3 c3 | G3 G3 | c3 c3 | c3 c3 | f3 e3 | d3 G3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

PEGGY'S WEDDING [1]. AKA - "Petty's Wedding (1)." English, Scottish; Jig (6/8 time). D Major (Gunn, Kennedy, Raven): C Major (Athole, Gow). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB (Athole, Gunn, Kennedy, Raven). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection; it also is contained in the 1768 [James] Gillespie Collection of Perth.

Additional notes

Printed sources : - Bremner (Scots Reels), 1757; p. 54 (appears as “Peggie’s Wedding”). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 401. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 3), 1806; p. 21. William Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes), Glasgow, 1848; p. 89. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), London, 1867, No. 4, p. 2. Kennedy (Fiddlers Tune Book, vol. 2), 1954; p. 35. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 106. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 110.

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