Annotation:Ephey M'Nab

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 EPHEY M'NAB. AKA - "Eppie M'Knab," "Euphie McNab," "Ken You Not Little Jack Rob?," Scottish, Jig and Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the melody in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (p. 111), however, the melody (under the title "Euphie McNab") had much earlier appeared in the Drummond Castle Manuscript (in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle), inscribed "A Collection of Country Dances written for the use of his Grace the Duke of Perth by Dav. Young, 1734." Instructions for a country dance to this tune were written down in 1752 by John McGill, dancing master in Girvan. The jig appears in the music manuscript collections of fiddler John Fife (collected beginning 1780, perhaps in Perthshire and/or at sea), and fluter Thomas Molyneaux (1788, Shelburne, Nova Scotia). A song called "Eppie McNab", set to a different air, appears in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3, 1790; p. 290.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), vol. II, 1785; No. 163, p. 60.  Recorded sources:

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