Annotation:Chase (1) (The)
X:1 T:The Chase [1] S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/11/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 20 % Gore's Index gives earliest publication as John Hamilton's % "A Choice Coll. of Scots Reels, or C.D. & Str..." N.D.; % it also appears in several other collections around the time of Petrie's book L:1/8 M:C R:Reel K:G d|g2 (bg) dgBd|g2 bg d(BAG) |g2 bg f2 af |e(gfe) d3:|d| d2 (gd) b(dcB) |c2 (fc) a(cTBA)|B2 (dB) g(BTAG)|DGFA GABc| d2 (gd) b(dTcB)|c2 (fc) a(cTBA)|B2 (dB) g(BTAG)|DGFA G3|]
CHASE [1], THE. AKA and see "Chace (1) (The)." Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune earliest in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 15), while Charles Gore finds the earliest printing to be in John Hamilton's A Choice Coll. of Scots Reels, or Country Dances and Strathspeys (n.d.). It was included by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler Robert Petrie in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances (1796, p. 20).
