Annotation:I Wish You Wou'd Marry Me Now

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 I WISH YOU WOU'D MARRY ME NOW. AKA and see “George Carnegie’s Strathspey,” “Inverara Rant,” “Marry Me Now,” “Proposal (2)(The).” Scottish, Reel. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection, although early printings also appears in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) and Preston’s Collection of Scots Reels and Country Dances (1768). O’Neill reprints Preston’s setting, identical to that in the Glen collection. See also the related “Lady Warkworth’s Reel (1)” and “Morpeth Lasses.”  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Bremner (Scots Reels), c. 1757; p. 58. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 23. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 231.

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