Annotation:Over the Muir Sherran

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OVER THE MUIR SHERRAN. English, Scottish (originally); Country Dance (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody first appears in Glasgow publisher James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785) as "Favorite Strathspey (A)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Preston (Preston's 24 Country Dances for the Year 1804), 1804; No. 529, p. 225.

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