- 1 hour 16 minutesS 10 E 11 Robert Bremner's Collection of Scots Reels and Country Dances Playthrough part 1
Tunes:
Robert Bremner: Ratha Fair, Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel, The Milkmaids of Blantyre, Miss Polly Skinner's Reel, Miss Ramsey's Reel, The Parks of Kilburnie, Kiss me Sweetly, Cameron Has Got his Wife Again, Mr. Robert Kenney's Reel, Miss Blair's Reel, I'll gae nae mair to your Town, The Fyket, Isle of Sky, Jacky Stewart's Reel, Capt. Ross's Reel, Duke Of Perth's Reel,
Wililam Vickers: Lanox Love,
Sutherland: Clean Peas Straw,
Donald MacDonald: Pease Straw,
Thomas Glen: Pease Strae,
Abraham MacIntosh: Miss Parker's Reel,
James Aird: The Fyket,+X+X+
If you like the sound of my new whistles, check out Verdant Whistles here:
https://www.irishflutestore.com/products/verdant-whistles?variant=46855357432034+X+
If you want to hear Robert Bremner's Treatise on music you can listen to my reading of it here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s8e2+X+
The Articles I found about the Possible "Lady Doll Sinclair"
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Lady_Doll_Sinclairhttps://www.facebook.com/share/1CzNLUYjcC/
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Nearly all of the tunes this week come from Robert Bremner's 1757(ish) publication: A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002262+X+
I'm hoping ot update the notes soon, but shoot me an email if you're looking for any of the other sources I didn't link yet.
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16 May 2026, 5:00 am - 50 minutes 33 secondsS10 E 10 Lowland and Border Pipers' Society Tune of the Month Oyster Wife's Rant
Tunes:
David Young: The Drunken Wives in Pearson's Closs,
Robert Bremner: Oyater Wives Rant, Lady Doll Sinclair's Reel,
James Aird: The Oyster Wive's Rant, Mullindough or the Black Laddie,
Angus Cumming: Haugh's of Cromdale,
John Peacock: Oyster Wifes Rant
Donald MacDonald: A Mulinn Dubh, The Whimsical, Jingling Johnie, The Miller's Fair Daughter, Morag is Domhnull (or Marion & Donald), The Jolly Old Gardner,
John Rook: The Black Laddie,
Thomas Glen: Mulinn Dubh (The Black Mill),
William Gunn: Am Muilen Dubh (The black Mill)
William Ross: The Black Mill
LBPS Blue Book: The Oyster Wife's Rant,
Jeremy Kingsbury: Oyster Wife's Rant,Be sure to Post your performance to your own instagram account and tag it #LBPS or #LBPSTOTM
or post your rendition straight to the Lowland and Border Pipers' Group (Formerly LBPS Forum)
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1FZMPP8vUm/You should also explore the growing resources at the LBPS Tune of the Month Website:
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/repertoire/tune-of-the-month/1297-may-2026-oyster-wifes-rantSOURCES
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1740: The Drunken Wives in Pearson’s Closs from David Young’s A Collection of the Newest Country Dances Perform’d in Scotland at Edinburgh by Da. Young WM
Image Courtesy Pete Stewart+X+
1760s: The Oyster Wive’s Rant From Robert Bremner’s A Collection of Scots Reels or Contry Dances
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175+X+
1780: The Oyster Wive’s rant from James Aird’s A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs : adapted to the fife, violin or German-flute
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00ingl/page/2/mode/2up+X+
1800(ish): Oyster Wifes Rant from John Peacock’s A Favourite Collection of Tunes with Variations Adapted for the Northumberland Small Pipes, Violin or Flute
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/K0101300.jpg+X+
1828: A Mulinn Dubh from Donald MacDonald’s A Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels & Jigs Arranged for the Highland Bagpipe https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682759
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1840: The Black Laddie from John Rook’s Manuscript Multum in parvo or a Collection of old English, Scotch, Irish & Welsh Tunes.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/rook/rook_pages/059.htm+X+
1843: Mulinn Dubh From A New and Complete Tutor for the Great Highland Bagpipe by Thomas Glen
https://ceolsean.net/content/TGlen/TGlen_TOC.html+X+
1848: An Muilen Dubh (The black Mill) from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music adaptes for the Bagpipes
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html+X+
1869: The Black Mill From Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music by William Ross https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html
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Black Mill Set from Cold and Raw:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/cold-and-raw+
1828: The Whimsical (Fall of Foyers) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682660+
1828: Jingling Johnie (Kate Dalrymple) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682737+
1828: The Miller’s Fair Daughter from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682605+
1828: Morag is Domhnull (or Marion & Donald) from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, Reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682682+
1828: The Jolly old Gardener from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682627+X+X+
The Oyster Wife’s Rant from Lowland and Border Pipers’ Society The Blue Book; Committee Sessions Repertoire
https://j3site.lbps.net/index.php/repertoire/miscellaneous-collections/379-the-blue-book-committee-sessions-repertoire+X+
Link to the Discussion of “Playing Reels to Oyster women”
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock/archive-issues/130-june-2012/690-playing-reels-to-oyster-womenHere are some ways you can support the show:
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1 May 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutesS 10 E09 Dixon Playthrough Part 4 with tune from John Dally
Tunes:
William Dixon: Wallington, John Cudbursuns fancy, Minuat Edward the Second, an thay were my own thing,
William Vickers: Shew Me the Way to Wallington, The Pipers maggot,
Melodies Committee of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society: Shew me the Way to Wallington, John Cuthbertson's Fancy,
William Cocks: Shew's The Way to Wallington, Pipers' Maggot,
David Young: The Piper,
John Johnson: The Piper's Maggot,
McFadyen (Aird): Piper's Maggot,
Hime: The Pipers Maggot,
O'Farrell: The Pipers Maggot,
Donald MacDonald: The Piper's Maggot
Angus MacKay: The Pipers Maggot,
David Glen: The Piper's Maggot,
John Dally Playing: John Cuthbertson's Fancy
John Giddy: Nansavallen,Check out the Cree Fiddlers going to Orkney Documentary Here
The Fiddlers of James Bay: https://www.folkstreams.net/films/fiddlers-of-james-bayCheck out John Dally's Piping here:
https://youtube.com/@rustygulley-r3r?si=dh1yPpW-cVe4Fegx
https://on.soundcloud.com/Vk1wTdlhIkNXnypFMH
and his Leatherwork here:
https://www.instagram.com/dallyleather/Check out Alan Kingsbury's Art here:
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18 April 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 5 secondsS 10 E 08 Dixon Playthrough Part 3 with David Faulkner
Tunes:
David Faulkner & Stephen Turner: Hit Her Between the Legs, Dorrington Lads,
William Vickers: Whipper and Girder or Ranger’s Frolick,
Patrick MacDonald: Tune 7 (Whip her and Girde her)
William Dixon: Hit Her Between the Legs, The Black and the Grae,
John Peacock: The Black and the Grey,
John Rook: Black and the Grey, Dorrington Lads (By David Faulkner)
Bruce and Stoke: The Black and the Grey
John Johnson: Black and All Black,Thanks to David Faulkner for sending in some tunes and thoughts.
Check out his music here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-944955873And Check Out the Bagpipe Society’s Website and Blowout:
https://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/blowout/2026/Sources:
1770: Whipper and Girder or Ranger’s Frolick from William Vickers Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0304500.jpg+X+X+
1784: Tune #7 (Whip Her and Gird Her) from Patrick MacDonald’s A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs:
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=RA1-PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false+X+X+
1733: Hit Her Between the Legs from William Dixon’s Manuscript
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1733: The Black and the Gray from Matt Seattle’s Transcription of William Dixon’s Black and Grae
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/rowly-powly+X+X+
1800ish: Black and the Grey from John Peacock’s Favorite Collection of Tunes
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/K0101100.jpg+X+X+
1840ish: Black and the Gray from Rook Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/rook/rook_pages/075.htm+X+X+
1882: The Black and the Gray from Bruce and Stoke’s Northumbrian Minstrelsy
https://archive.org/details/northumbrianmins0000jcol/page/n5/mode/2up+X+X+
1751 Black and All Black from Johnson’s Choice Collection of Country Dances
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Johnson/Johnson%20Info.html+X+X+
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4 April 2026, 4:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutesS 10 E 07 20 Year Anniversary, 200 Episodes and 100K downloads
Tunes:
2006 Jeremy Kingsbury: The Gold Ring, The Whitby Runaround (by Michael Grey)
Nicholas Sunsdahl: Piano Solo,
Ewan Maccoll: First Time Ever I saw Your Face, Dirty Old Town
Peggy Seeger: First Time Ever I saw Your Face
Elvis: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Kingsbury: The Coolin, Dumbarton's Drums
John Peacock: Cuckold come out of the Amery
Robert Bremner: Struan Robertson's Rant
J&R Glen: Struan Robertson's Rant
David Glen: Struan Robertson's Rant
Barry Shears: Struan Robertson (Currie), Traditional Reel III, Beaver Cove,
Donald MacDonald: Old Rusty Gun
Donald MacLeod: CroninMore Notes to come soon, or on Request. You can Find Peacok on Farne Archive, Donald MacDonald, J & R Glen, and David Glen are all available on Ceolsean.
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21 March 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 30 minutesS 10 E 06 Humours of Glen, O'Farrell Playthrough Part 1
Tunes:
O'Farrell: Humours of Glen, Daniel the Sun, Daniel the Sun, Yemen o Knock, Galloway Tom, Castle Town Hunt, Bannocks of Barley Meal
James Oswald: Mary Scott
William McGibbon: Mary Scot
John Brysson: Humours of Glen,
John Brysson/Stephen McNally: Humours of Glen
Matt Seattle: Humours of Glen
Neil Gow & Sons: The Humours of Glen
Broadside Courtesy of Jack Campin: The Humours of Glen
John Rook: Humours of Glen
Goodman: The Humours of Glyn(n), The Humours of Glynn
Goodman Tunes Trio ( Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain ) The Humours of Glynn,
Eliza Ross: Alasdair of the Stoups, The Big Foot of the Deceitful One
Nicolas Brown: Daniel the Sun,+X+X+
Check out the Goodman Tunes Trio's ( Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain ) Album Here:
https://goodmantunestrio.bandcamp.com/album/more-tunes-from-the-goodman-manuscriptsCheck out Nicolas Brown's Album here:
https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/album/good-enough-music-for-them-who-love-itRead Matt Seattle's Humours of Glen Common Stock article here:
https://j3site.lbps.net/index.php/common-stock/archive-issues/369-common-stock-june-2017Read Jack Campin's book/website here:
http://www.campin.me.uk/More Notes to come soon, or email me for links to the different settings.
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7 March 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 21 minutesS 10 E 05 Dixon Playthrough Part 2 With a Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg
Tunes:
William Dixon: Dorrington, Have a Care of Her Johnny, Hacky Honey
Daniel Dow: Sandy Gow's Three Pints
John McLachlan: Sandy Gow's Three Pints,
From David Greenberg and Chris Norman: a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky HoneyBig Thank You to David Greenberg and Chris Norman for allowing me to play their full track: General Reid from their album Let Me In This Ae Night the track is a set of a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey. You can and should buy their whole album, but in the mean time you can stream it on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4DWQdp7wKySlfzuPMVkdO0
amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B003AMICX2?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US
You can check out Chris Norman’s website here:
https://boxwood.org/+X+X+
1733: Dorrington, Have a Care of Her Johnny, Hacky Honey from William Dixon's Manuscript
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
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1776: Strike the Bell from William Vickers' Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0310200.jpg+X+X+
1787: Sandy Gow’s Three Pint’s [sic] From Daniel Dow’s: A Collection of Ancient Scots Music for the violin, harpsichord or German flute:
http://web.archive.org/web/20250708073125/https://www.wirestrungharp.com/library/local_books/dow_17-25.pdf+X+X+
1854: Sandy Gow’s Three Pints, and The Maid of Glengaresdale From John McLachlan’s The Piper’s Assistant
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105010347+X+X+
Hacky Honey
Thanks to Fin Moore for chatting with me a bit about Dixon, more on this to come later, Check out Far North Retreat Here:
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Big thanks to David Greenberg and Chris Norman for allowing me to play their full track: General Reid from their album Let Me In This Ae Night the track is a set of a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey. You can and should buy their whole album, but in the mean time you can stream it on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4DWQdp7wKySlfzuPMVkdO0
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22 February 2026, 6:00 am - 2 hours 6 minutesS 10 E 04 Dorrington Lads: William Dixon, Iain Gelston and Donald Lindsay
Tunes:
William Dixon: Wattys away, Dorrington (I keep saying Dorrington Lads in the Episode, or Dixon just calls it Dorrington).
Iain Gelston: Rusty Gully, Cotting Burn,
Donald Lindsay and Richard Youngs: Dorrington
Lionel Winship: Dorrington Laddie
John Rook: Dorrington Lads
Melodies Committee: Dorrington Lads
Bruce and Stoke: Dorrington LadsThanks to Iain Gelston for contributing to the show. Check out his work here:
https://iaingelston.wordpress.com/Thanks to Donald Lindsay and Richard Youngs, Check out History of Sleep here:
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8 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 15 minutesS 10 E 03 2026 William Dixon Playthrough Jamie Campbell Conversation rerun
Tunes:
William Dixon: Golden Locks, My Love Comes Passing By Me, Black and the Grey+X+X+X+
You can Watch Jamie’s Dixon Playthrough on Youtube:
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https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-editionYou can find Pete Stewart’s books here:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/index.phpMr. Preston’s Hornpipe Played by Pete Stewart:
https://youtu.be/6TXJphyjFfwFIN
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7 February 2026, 5:30 am - 1 hour 28 minutesS 10 E 02 Kilts, Bagpipers and Living History. A Chat with Isaac Walters (A Rerun from 2021)
Tunes:
Robyn Jamner: If I die at the Hands of a faceless man.
William Dixon: The New Way to Morpeth
James Aird: Johnny MacGill (Come under my Plaidy)
Donald MacDonald: Buckskin Kilt, The Wren’s Death, The Kilt is my Delight, Jenny Dang the Weaver+X+X+
Check Out Robyn Jamner (they/she) Here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@robynjamner/video/7599064826803014942?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7599175986731566606
https://youtube.com/@robynjamner?si=cxDy-rwXRtgWBBSH+X+X+
News Story from Leach Lake Band of Ojibwe Chairman:
https://lptv.org/leech-lake-tribal-chairman-concerned-with-immigration-crackdown-in-mn/+X+X+
For a quick crash course on Tartan check out Hugh Cheape's Tartan: the Highland Habbit
https://archive.org/details/tartanhighlandha0000chea/mode/2up+X+X+
You can Find Isaac’s Website Here:
https://sites.google.com/view/ihwaltersfactotum/home
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/i.h.walters/Blarney Pilgrims Podcast Episode About Scottish Baroque Fiddling (amongst other things) with Shane Lestideau:
https://www.blarneypilgrims.com/episodes/shane-lestideauWe discussed the Niel McLean Portrait briefly, but I didn’t use it as the cover art for the podcast, if you want to see it you can follow this link: I thought Niel won the first Bagpipe Competition held by the Highland Society in the 1780s, but looking through Angus MacKay’s notes on the subject I’m not seeing his name.
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw138111/Neil-McLean+X+X+
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25 January 2026, 6:15 am - 1 hour 23 minutesS 10 E 01 Abolish Ice Chippewa Valley Irish Immigration with guest musicians Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain (Rerun)
TUNES:
William Dixon: The New Way to Bowden (Athol Braes) (though I say Morpeth in the Podcast)
Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Morning Brush
Martin Freeman: One Tree Vale. I Ngleaun A Chruing
Canon James Goodman: Jackson’s Snack, The Bright Dawn of Day
James Aird: The Dawning of the Day
Canon Goodman, Courtesy of Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain: Ceann Dubh Dileas (My dark-haired darling), Pádruig, Píobaire (Patrick the Piper) / Quadrille, Humours of Glynn.Huge Thank you to Mick, Emer and Aoife for letting my play a few tracks from their new album: More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts. Be sure to check it out on Bandcamp:
https://goodmantunestrio.bandcamp.com/album/more-tunes-from-the-goodman-manuscriptsBe sure to check out Fin Dwyer’s Outstanding Irish History Podcast for a far better discussion of the Famine in his 37 Episode Series:
https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/podcast-introduction-to-the-great-famine-series/I watched several videos on the Famine, but this one was particularly good:
When Ireland Starved:
https://youtu.be/B_K-q4GCdWgCover Art for this Episode Comes From The Illustrated London News February 13, 1847:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Illustrated_London_News/1dFCAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1You can See it on the Original release of the Episode here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e05This week’s episode is a companion piece to a presentation I gave for the Chippewa Valley Museum’s February Folk Arts Festival https://www.cvmuseum.com/visit/folk-arts-fest/
The Mystery Tune from last week was Cutting Bracken (also Known as Buain na Rainich or Tha Mi Sgìth), big Thanks to those that let me know!
Here are some links to recordings of it from Kist of Riches:
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/32380
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/72046
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/88532
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/101278
http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/105641 (this is the version where the Fairy is complaining to be working alone).
Here is the live 1972 Video I played a Sample from Alan Stivell:
https://youtu.be/aJtdHmpjzxo1733: William Dixon’s The New Way to Bowden, I incorrectly refer to this tune as New way to Morpeth in the Podcast I think: from Matt Seattle’s book:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition1774: Walker Jackson’s Jackson’s Morning Brush:
The book itself is not available online, but you can look at a fair transcription of the notes on Bill Black’s Website:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html1860s: Canon James Goodman’s Jackson’s Airs, Snack
Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA):
http://port.itma.ie/score/ITMA_5894
Or the Original hosted Here:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-four#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=6&z=-1730.7771%2C4123.5859%2C9428.2975%2C3406.3143To read more about James Goodman you can read here:
http://goodman.itma.ie/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-man-who-saved-a-feast-of-music-from-the-famine-years-1.923981
His Obituary was Reprinted in an Early Issue of An Piobaire: An Píobaire - sraith 2, uimhir 30 (May 1986)
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1011&mediaId=25932
https://www.itma.ie/features/discover/canon-james-goodmanYou can see the article about the Cork Piper’s Club in An Píobaire - sraith. 1, uimhir 1 (March 1969)
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1010&mediaId=258781913/4: Alexander Martin Freeman’s One Tree Vale: of I Ngleaun A Chruing (The tune appears on page 227)
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/journal-of-the-folk-song-society-no-241861: Canon Goodman’s The Bright Dawn of Day
ABC from ITMA:
http://port.itma.ie/score/ITMA_1109
Original:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=4&z=-1312.2998%2C556.3838%2C10302.6954%2C3722.2222Here Is the Video of Several Irish Singers singing Fáinne Gael an Lae
https://youtu.be/NtQeo09xOGA1780s: James Aird’s Dawning of the Day:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87705159FIN
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