Annotation:How Can I Keep My Maidenhead?

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 HOW CAN I KEEP MY MAIDENHEAD? AKA and see "Coll. Montgomery's Strathspey," "Colonel Lennox's Love," "Lennox Love to Blantyre." English, Scottish; Reel. England, Northumberland. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by James Crockat, about 1723, from the older tune "Lennox Love to Blantyre." Later called "Braes of Auchtertyre." Alburger (1983) says: "Although collectors since that time have accepted this claim (presumably because {antiquarian William} Stenhouse stated he had the music 'in the handwriting of James Crockat'), 'Lennox Love' and 'The Braes of Auchtertyre' are not similar. Moreover, no trace of the MS., the missing link, is known, the only reference coming from Stenhouse." "How Can I Keep My Maidenhead?" was published by Johnson in Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances, vol. 2 (London, 1742).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 81. Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 300.  Recorded sources:

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