'''CRONSTOUNE'''. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Published in Henry Playford's 1700 collection of Scottish dance tunes. The name Cranstoun comes from the Barony of Cranstoun in Midlothian. Clan Cranstoun fought on the side of the Royalists in the English Civil War, following which their estates were forfeit. John Glen finds a version of the tune under the title "[[MacLachlan's Reel]]" in Angus Cumming's 1780 '''A Collection of Strathspeys and Old Highland Reels'''.
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''Printed Sources:'' Playford ('''A Collection of Original Scotch Tunes'''), 1700; No. 5, p. 3.
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Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni
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X:1
T:Cronstoune
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:Noted as written. The first four notes of the 1st and 3rd
N:measures should probably all be 1/8 notes or dotted eighths.
B:Henry Playford - A Collection of Original Scotch-Tunes, (Full of the
B:Highland Humours) for the violin (London, 1700, No. 5, p. 3)
N:"Most of them being in the Compass of the Flute."
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:C
EG G2c2 G/G/G cG|c>de>c d/d/d D2|EG G2g2 e/f/g de|cAGE C/C/C C||
c|GECE GECE|FcEc d/d/d ef|gecg aegd|ecge c/c/c cg|
aegd ecfe|f/g/a ge d/d/d D2|E/F/G A/B/c e/f/g de|cAGE C/C/C C||
