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'''LEAVING LERWICK HARBOUR.''' Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A modern air in the Scottish style composed in 1970 by Lerwick, Shetland, fiddler William "Willie" Hunter (1933-1994), on the occasion of his sister Lorna's emigrating from Shetland to New Zealand. It is considered to be the finest composition of a fiddler who was considered to be the best of his generation, of whom it was said he could move an audience to tears through his sensitive rendering of slow airs. | |f_annotation='''LEAVING LERWICK HARBOUR.''' Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A modern air in the Scottish style composed in 1970 by Lerwick, Shetland, fiddler William "Willie" Hunter [http://www.shetland-music.com/prominent_artists/artists_of_the_past/willie_hunter_jun._%281934-1994%29/] (1933-1994), on the occasion of his sister Lorna's emigrating from Shetland to New Zealand. It is considered to be the finest composition of a fiddler who was considered to be the best of his generation, of whom it was said he could move an audience to tears through his sensitive rendering of slow airs. | ||
[[File:huntertulloch.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Willie Hunter and Violet Tulloch]] | |||
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|f_recorded_sources=Green Linnet GLCD 1151, Seamus McGuire - "The Wishing Tree" (1995). Greentrax, Willie Hunter - "Leaving Lerwick Harbour" (1995). Fiddler's Bid - "Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l04.htm#Lealeha]<br> | |||
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Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/l04.htm#Lealeha]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:15, 23 November 2021
X:1 T:Leaving Lerwick Harbour C:Willie Hunter S:Matthew McGranaghan D:The Fiddle Music of Donegal, vol 3 N:This air was composed by Willie Hunter to recall the occasion N:of his sister Lorna's sailing out of Lerwick Harbour on the N:beginning of her journey of emigration to New Zealand Z:Juergen Gier <fiddler@jgfiddler.de> M:C L:1/8 K:D FE|D3F A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF3 E3D|E6FE| D3F A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|1AF3 E3D|D6:|2A2d2 c3d|d6de|: f3e d3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|A2f2 e2d2|1e6de| f3e d3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF2D {D}E3D|{C}D4 zAde:|2 e6AG|F3G A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF2D {D}E3D|D6|]
LEAVING LERWICK HARBOUR. Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A modern air in the Scottish style composed in 1970 by Lerwick, Shetland, fiddler William "Willie" Hunter [1] (1933-1994), on the occasion of his sister Lorna's emigrating from Shetland to New Zealand. It is considered to be the finest composition of a fiddler who was considered to be the best of his generation, of whom it was said he could move an audience to tears through his sensitive rendering of slow airs.
