Annotation:Niel Gow's Reel (2)

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NIEL GOW'S REEL [2]. AKA - "Neil Gow's Second Wife again." AKA and see "Niel Gow." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Gow's Complete Repository, vol. 2 (1810). The reel appears in the 1817 music manuscript collection of Patrick McGahon, a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. It was entered under the title "Neil Gow's Second Wife again" in his ms.

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Source for notated version : - a c. 1847 music manuscript book by Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown Tune Book].

Printed sources : - Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 48.






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