Annotation:Corporal (2) (The)
X:1 T:Corporal [2], The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner - Scots Reels (1757) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Gmix (c | B)GGA B>cdf | AFcA cFF(A | B)(GG)A Bcdg | fdTcA G2G :| |: (e | f)dg^f gdd(e | f)cfe fcc(f | g)dg^f gdd(c | B)GAB G2G :||
CORPORAL [2], THE. Scottish, Reel. G Mixolydian (Bremner): A Mixoldyian (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Directions for the dance to the tune were written down in 1752 by John McGill, dancing master in Girvan, for his students. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. Glasgow publisher James Aird printed a simplified and distanced version from "The Corporal" printed by Bremner twenty-five years earlier, perhaps as the tune found employment as a march or country dance. Later County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric wikipedia:James_Goodman_(musiologist) (1828-1896) entered it into Book 2 of his large mid-19th century music manuscript collection, copied from Aird's 1782 volume.
