Annotation:Last Pint Ale (The)

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X:1 T:Last Pint (of) Ale, The M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner - Scots Reels (c. 1757) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D D2 DF E2 E=c | (B/c/d) AF (G/F/E/D/ =C)E | D2 DF E2 E=c | B/c/d A>F (A2A2) :| |: defd gfed | (B/c/d) AF (G/F/E/D/ =C)E | defd gfed | (B/c/d) AF A2A2 :|]


LAST PINT (OF) ALE. Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. "Last Pint Ale" appears vol. 10 (p. 12) of James Oswald's Caledonina Pocket Companion (1760), with two different tunes (the present melody as well as another). It also appears in Robert Mackintosh's A Third Book of Sixty-Eight New Reels and Strathspeys: Also above forty old Famous Reels (Edinburgh, 1796), although with the parts reversed from Bremner. Northumbrian musician William Vickers included it in his 1770 music manuscript collection.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Robert Mackintosh collection [S. Johnson]; William Vickers' 1770 music manuscript collection [1] [Seattle].

Printed sources : - Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 37. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 19. Seattle (Great Northern/William Vickers), 1770, No. 162.





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