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|f_annotation='''MRS. FORBES LEITH.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AA’BB’ (Perlman). Composed by the great Scottish fiddler, composer and dancing master J. Scott Skinner (1842-1927) in 1868 and published in his collection '''Thirty New Strathspeys and Reels''', a volume dedicated to Mrs Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh House, Aberdeenshire. The family seat was on the river Don, and featured a fine Grecian portico. Skinner also published it in his '''Miller o’ Hirn Collection''' (1881). The melody has currency among Cape Breton fiddlers. | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Kenny Chaisson (b. c. 1947, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Rollo Bay) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. | |||
'''MRS. FORBES LEITH.''' Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AA’BB’ (Perlman). Composed by the great Scottish fiddler, composer and dancing master J. Scott Skinner (1842-1927) in 1868 and published in his collection '''Thirty New Strathspeys and Reels'''. Skinner also published it in his '''Miller o’ Hirn Collection''' (1881). | |f_printed_sources=Bain ('''50 Fiddle Solos'''), 1989; p. 44 (appears as "Forbes Leith"). Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald'''), 1997; No. 106, p. 44 (appears as "Mrs. Forbes of Leith"). Hardie ('''Caledonian Companion'''), 1992; p. 60. Henderson ('''Flowers of Scottish Melody'''), 1935. Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island'''), 1996; p. 114. Skinner ('''Thirty New Strathspeys and Reels'''), 1868. Skinner ('''Miller o' Hirn Collection'''), 1881; No. 115, p. 59. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Celtic 041 (78 RPM), Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald. | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t1217.html] | |||
|f_tune_annotation_title=https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Mrs._Forbes_Leith > | |||
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MRS. FORBES LEITH. Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AA’BB’ (Perlman). Composed by the great Scottish fiddler, composer and dancing master J. Scott Skinner (1842-1927) in 1868 and published in his collection Thirty New Strathspeys and Reels, a volume dedicated to Mrs Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh House, Aberdeenshire. The family seat was on the river Don, and featured a fine Grecian portico. Skinner also published it in his Miller o’ Hirn Collection (1881). The melody has currency among Cape Breton fiddlers.
