Annotation:Miss Faw's Minuet

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MISS FAW'S MINUET. AKA and see "She's Sweetest when She's Naked (1)." Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This minuet, appearing in the [James] Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), was apparently fashioned out of the earlier and quicker-tempoed "<incipit title="load:naked" width=850 link="https://tunearch.org/wiki/She's Sweetest when She's Naked (1)">She's Sweetest when She's Naked (1)</incipit>," published by Oswald in his Curious Collection (2741, p. 35).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Gillespie MS., 1768, p. 84 [Johnson].

Printed sources : - Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 61, p. 153.

Recorded sources: -

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