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Annotation:Corimonie's Rant
X:1 T:Corimonie’s Strathspey T:Corimonie's Rant M:C| L:1/16 R:D B:William Campbell – “Campbell’s 1st Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & B:Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as B:Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, B:edition of c. 1793, first published c. 1786, p. 16) F: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/6/61/IMSLP655929-PMLP1052069-campbells1stbook00camp.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D V:1 F2|DDD2 (A3F) d3FA3B|DDD2 (A3F) E3FG3B|DDD2 (A3F) d3FA3c|d3fe3g f3d d2:| (g2|f3)dd3f g3e f3d|eee2 (f3d) g3e=c3e|Tf3dd3f g3ef3d|e/e/e3 e/e/e3 Tf3dd3g| Tf3dd3f g3ef3d|e3df3d g3=ce3g|fa3ef3 d3ef2d2|AF3A3g Tf3d d2|| V:2 clef = bass z2|D,4D,4D,4D,4|D,4D,4A,4G,4|F,4D,4D,4F,4|D,4A,4D,4D,2:| z2|D,4D,4A,,4D,4|A,,4D,4=C,4C,4|D,4D,4A,,4D,4|A,,4^C,4D,4D,4| D,4D,4A,,4D,4|D,4D,4=C,4C,4|D,4E,4F,4D,4|A,4A,,4D,4D,2||
CORI(E)MONIES RANT. AKA - "Corimonie's Strathspey." AKA and see "Miss Brown's Reel." Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (most versions): AABB' (Kerr). Composition of the melody is credited to Daniel Dow (1732-1783) by Kerr, Glen and others. Linscott (1939) says only "it is very old." Glen (1981) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 21).
