Annotation:I Love My Love in Secret

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 I LOVE MY LOVE IN SEACREIT (Secret). Scottish, Scotch Measure (cut time). A Mixolydian: C Major (Hume, Playford): B Flat Major (McGibbon). AEac# tuning (fiddle). ABCDE. "I Love My Love in Secret" appears in the Guthrie's MS'. (according to Dauney), the Margaret Sinkler MS. (Glasgow, 1710), Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance music (Collection Original Scotch Tunes, p. 2), and the Hume MS. (1704). Later in the 18th century it was published in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion (1760, vol. 2, pp. 26-27), and in McGibbon's Scots Tunes (1762) in air minuet form. It also appears in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 6 (1790, p. 213). The air represents the oldest form of the better-known tune "Logie o' Buchan." They lyric printed in the Musical Museum" begins: My Sandy gied to me a ring Was a' beset wi' diamonds fine; But I gied him a far better thing, I gied my heart in pledge o' his ring. It was the custom in Scotland for lovers to break a silver coin prior to a necessary separation, each keeping a piece as a pledge to be faithful during absence.  Source for notated version: Bowie MS. (1705) [Johnson].  Printed sources: D. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 9, p. 26. McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book III'), 1762; p. 66.  Recorded sources'':

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