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Annotation:Mary Bain's Wedding
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MARY BAIN'S WEDDING. AKA - "Posadh piuhar jain bhain." AKA and see "Long John's Wedding," "Pòsadh peathar in bhàin." Scottish, Jig or March (6/8 time). A Mixolydian (MacDonald): D Major (Shand). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The earliest printing of the tune was under the title "Pòsadh peathar in bhàin" in Rev. Patrick MacDonald's Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (1784). "Mary Bain's Wedding" was published as "Long John's Wedding" by Francis O'Neill in his Music of Ireland (1903, No. 1018). Set in 3/4 waltz time the tune is known as "My Own House/My Ain Hoose." See also the minor-mode Scottish relative "John Bain's Sister's Wedding."
