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|f_annotation='''DALKEITH FAIR.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer [[biography:William Marshall]] by James Davie in his '''Davie's Caledonian Repository''', 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. Compare with "[[Cadgers of the Cannongate]]," a related (but perhaps not cognate) fiddle tune dating to the mid-18th century. | |||
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Dalkeith Fair was for centuries an annual cattle and livestock fair. | |||
Dalkeith Fair was an annual cattle fair | |f_source_for_notated_version= | ||
|f_printed_sources=Davie ('''Davie’s Caledonian Repository'''), Aberdeen, 1829-30; p. 35. Oliver Ditson ('''The Boston Collection of Instrumental Music'''), 1910; No. 4, p. 80. John & Robert Glen ('''Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe'''), c. 1870; p. 25. Kinnaird ('''Lothian Collection'''), | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:26, 15 January 2024
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DALKEITH FAIR. Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:William Marshall by James Davie in his Davie's Caledonian Repository, 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. Compare with "Cadgers of the Cannongate," a related (but perhaps not cognate) fiddle tune dating to the mid-18th century.
Dalkeith Fair was for centuries an annual cattle and livestock fair.
