Annotation:By Moon Light on the Green

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BY MOON LIGHT ON THE GREEN. Scottish, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. Researcher Matt Seattle finds a tune in Northumbrian musician Henry Atkinson's 1694-95 music manuscript collection as a earlier version of Oswald's "By Moonlight on the Green." In the Atkinson MS it is untitled, with the note at the end "Scotch tune of Mr Purselle" [1].

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 4), 1760; pp. 26-27.

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