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S6 Old Favorites again, Robert Bremner 1.5 and 2 Jack Lattin Revisited and Robert & James Bremner and the Declaration of Independence


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Part 1.5:
Bremner: The Grant's Rant, The Carle He Came O'er the Craft, Miss Blair's Reel
William Dixon: Jack Lattin
John Sutherland: Jack Latone
O'Farrell: Jack Lattin with Variations

and on Part 2:

Robert Bremner, Loch Ness, Feg for a kiss, The Cross Well of Edinburgh & Watermen’s Rant, Open the Door to Three & Invercaul’s Reel, Straglass House.
James Bremner (By Way of Francis Hopkinson), Lady Coventry’s Minuett
Robert Millar: Lady Coventry’s Minuett, St. Paul’s.
Misc: Wha Saw the Forty Twa
Kerr: Wha’ Widna Fecht
Levey: Milk the Churn/ Gliogar an Mheadair (Fig for a Kiss)

Be sure to check out the Phenomenal Video from ITMA about The Story of Jack Lattin For Their Drawing from the Well Series.

https://youtu.be/V_QMFkdSFuo
You can also Check Out Edwina Guckian’s Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPuMrLhWjXydtXJnqss5QA

1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002999
Bremner’s The Carle he Came O’er the Craft:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002625
Bremner’s Miss Blair’s Reel:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002350
1733: William Dixon’s Manuscript is available here if you want to see the Border Pipe Setting for Jack Lattin: https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
1780s: John Sutherland’s Setting for Jack Latone: (link to download PDF, tune is on page 34)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf
1790s: For O’Farrell’s Setting for Jack Lattin with Variations:
I mostly Use the ABC notation From Paul Kinder on Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Jackie_Layton
It is quite a bit different from the ABC notation from Black’s Capeirish website:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

Artwork for this Episode from David Allan “An Edinburgh Watercarrier with a Woman Standing at a Fountain” From the National Galleries of Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8392/edinburgh-watercarrier-woman-standing-fountain?search=David%20Allan&search_set_offset=44

1757 Robert Bremner’s Loch Ness:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002614

1757 Robert Bremner’s Feg for a Kiss

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003109
Levey’s Milk the Churn (Fig for a Kiss)
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Gliogar_an_Mheadair

Lady Coventry’s Minuet with Variations by James Bremner As appears in Francis Hopkinson’s “Selections”

https://www.loc.gov/item/2010563317/
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/music/songinamerica/200187399/0022v.jpg
The Book I was reading from came from:
Anne McClenny Krauss, “Scotland and America in the Age of Enlightenment (Ediburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990).

You can Download the Robert Millar Collection on Ross’s Music Page:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

Robert Millar’s Lady Coventry’s Minuett can be found on this PDF Download (it is on page 15 of the PDF):

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millar/pages65-80.pdf

Robert Millar’s St. Paul Psalm can be found on this PDF Download (it is on page 6 of the PDF):

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millar/pages17-32.pdf

1769 Robert Bremner’s Straglass (Strathglass) house:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104993968

1769 Robert Bremner’s Cross Well of Edinburgh:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104994078
1769 Robert Bremner’s Watermen’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104994023

Misc.: Wha Saw the Forty Twa:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Wha_Saw_the_Forty_Twa
Davies: A bit closer to “Davies” but couldn’t actually find the setting in Davies when I went hunting:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Wha_Wad%27na_Fecht_for_Charlie
1880’s Kerr Marry Melodies, vol. 2: Wha’ Widna Fecht:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Wha%27_Widna_Fecht
For the Words and melody I grew up with you can watch the Corries:
https://youtu.be/yWkv_J9wRmg

1769 Robert Bremner’s Open the Door to Three: (Goes all the way back to 17th Century Playford)

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104993968
1769 Robert Bremner’s Invercaul’s (Invercauld) Reel:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104994045

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