Annotation:Foot it Feathy

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 FOOT IT FEATHY. AKA - "Foot it, Featly." Scottish, Reel. A Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A 'double-tonic' melody, suitable as a pipe reel. "Feathy" is a misprint on the page with the music notation in MacDonald's publication, as the word is spelled "Featly" in the index. Indeed, foot it, featly is a Shakespearean phrase meaning to dance nimbly, as when Ariel sings: Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.  Source for notated version: Miss L. Duff Stuart [MacDonald].  Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1884; p. 30.  Recorded sources:

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