PRETTY PEGGY
Quinn's Set

Of Bunting's published setting of the march, it is not clear that the entire four verses
were taken from Patrick Quinn.  The first two verses of Bunting's published setting of
the march are identical with Hampsey's verses one and two in
MS29 while the last two
verses relate to Quinn's two verses from
MS33 book I.  While Hampsey and Quinn
might both have had four verse settings of the piece, it is quite possible that Bunting
has simply presented Hampsey's first two verses and followed them with Quinn's first
two verses as an alternative verse three and four, perhaps because he considered
them more musically attractive than Hampsey's verse three and four.  We have no
original four verse notation from Quinn by Bunting as we have for Hampsey.  Bunting
was not averse to combining sets from different harpers in one, his
MS20 version of
Táim i mo Chodladh
being a clearly annotated example.

The two verses definitely associated with Quinn can be found in
MS33 book 1
ff32r/f31r.  The first verse is notated in f32r and the second in f31r.  Above the f32
notation is written
Pretty Peggy
Quins Burn's March or 3rd tune
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Burns' March
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Táim i mo Chodladh
Féachain Gléis
Words
Harp 'ceòl mór'
Quinn's set
Hampsey's set
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Cumha Bharúin Loch Mór
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