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'''CAIRNGORM, THE'''. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927), who explains that the cairngorm was "a gold scarf pin presented to the composer by an enthusiastic Perthshire amateur." | '''CAIRNGORM, THE'''. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927), who explains at the bottom of his manuscript copy [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0125] that the cairngorm was "a gold scarf pin presented to the composer by an enthusiastic Perthshire amateur." He also notes: "This Reel was written at the suggestion of Mr Alexander Troup, Ballater, a gentleman who has done valuable service to Scottish Music. The composer has known him for 30 years." In the early decades of the 20th century Skinner published a number of folios called the '''Cairngorm Series''', each with nine or ten tunes arranged for piano and violin, some newly composed and others previously published. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
CAIRNGORM, THE. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by the great Scots fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927), who explains at the bottom of his manuscript copy [1] that the cairngorm was "a gold scarf pin presented to the composer by an enthusiastic Perthshire amateur." He also notes: "This Reel was written at the suggestion of Mr Alexander Troup, Ballater, a gentleman who has done valuable service to Scottish Music. The composer has known him for 30 years." In the early decades of the 20th century Skinner published a number of folios called the Cairngorm Series, each with nine or ten tunes arranged for piano and violin, some newly composed and others previously published.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 127.
Recorded sources: