Annotation:Marchioness (The)
X:1 T:The Marchioness C:Trad. S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790 Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 2/27/04 N:Petrie's First Collection, page 13 L:1/8 M:6/8 R:Jig K:A E | A2A TAGA | B2B e2d | c2A TAGA | GBG EFG | A2A TAGA | B2B e2d | cBA BAG | A2A A2 :| |: z | e2e cde | f2f Tf3 | g2g efg | abg a3 | e2e cde | fga agf | edc BAG | A2A A2 :|
MARCHIONESS, THE. AKA and see "Guard House (The)," "Chelmsford Races," "Hullichan Jig," "Soldier's Dance." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Biography:Robert Petrie's 1st collection (1790), although it was predated by its inclusion one of Skillern's collections in 1776 (under the title "Guard House (The)"). "Hullichan Jig" is cognate in the second strain only.
