[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I could use some help, having reached an impasse with my own > resources. > > Miss Gunning's Reel appears in several collections such as Vickers > (1770), Aird (1782) and McGlashan (1786), and also appears in > Marshall's Kinrara collection which is actually a sheet, front and > back, along with the tunes Kinrara, Highland Time, Lick the Laddle > Sandie and Whigs of Fife and a forgettable tune by the Duke of Gordon. > > The Irish collector Brendan Breathnach attributed MIss Gunnings to > Marshall (who would have been only 22 when the melody appeared in > Vickers). Does anyone else attribute it to Marshall? Does anyone know > who might have composed the tune, if Marshall did not? Are there any > occurances prior to 1770? > > Much thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Andrew Kuntz
There is a tune of the title "Miss Gunnings" in the Thompson's 1st collection of 200 country dances, (London) c 1658, reissued c 1764 and c 1780. Only the latter have I actually seen, and I didn't copy the tune there. It's also in Longman and Broderip's 2 collection, London, c 1792. You can get the scale incipt/stressed note code from Rabson and Van Winkle Keller's 'The National Tune Index', 1980 - microfiche only. (I have it, but no ready access to a microfiche reader at present) Isuspect that "Miss Gunning's Reel" has been mistakenly attributed to Wm. Marshal because the tune appeared on the single sheet issue with Marshall's "Kinrara", c 1800. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or just <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Motto: Keep at it; muddling through always works. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
