Annotation:Grove (2) (The)

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 GROVE [2], THE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Kidson's melody is from McGlashan's Scots' Measures (1781). However, it was a popular jig that appears in many publications and musicians' manuscripts from the latter half of the 18th century. The jig (in D major) also appears in Edinburgh publisher Neil Stewart's Select Collection of Scots, English and Foreign Airs, Jiggs & Marches (1788), and in Charles and Stewart Thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Country Dances (vol. 4, 1780), and in Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson's Twenty-Four Country Dances for 1794. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of a tune by this name in Robert Ross's collection (p. 5). In America, "The Grove" (in the key of 'D') appears in the music manuscript copybook of John Hoff (1776-1818), a flute player from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the 1793 copybook of George Otis, musician from Worcester, Massachusetts, and the 1789-1790 copybook of Cushing Eells, of Norwich, Connecticut. The melody was published in America in Salem, Massachusetts, by Joshua Cushing, in his The Fifer's Companion No. 1 (1805).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; p. 12. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 1781; p. 2.  Recorded sources:

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