Annotation:Dunnechan: Difference between revisions

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DUNNICHEN HOUSE. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Skye): AA'BB' (Glen). The melody can be found in Archibald Duff's 1794 collection, though a note in MacDonald's Skye Collection says it was taken from the Peter Milne's Collection. Dunnichen, from the Scots Gaelic Dùn Neachdain, is a village in Angus, Scotland, near which is Dunnichen House, a country mansion purchased c. 1700 by a merchant named Dempster, from Dundee. Improvements were made by George Dempster (1735-1818), and agriculturalist and M.P., and it is his estate that appears to be honored by the composition.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 10. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 55 (appears as "Dunnechan").

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''DUNNICHEN HOUSE'''. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Skye): AA'BB' (Glen). The melody can be found in Archibald Duff's 1794 collection, though a note in MacDonald's '''Skye Collection''' says it was taken from the Peter Milne's Collection. Dunnichen, from the Scots Gaelic ''Dùn Neachdain'', is a village in Angus, Scotland.
+'''DUNNICHEN HOUSE'''. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Skye): AA'BB' (Glen). The melody can be found in Archibald Duff's 1794 collection, though a note in MacDonald's '''Skye Collection''' says it was taken from the Peter Milne's Collection. Dunnichen, from the Scots Gaelic ''Dùn Neachdain'', is a village in Angus, Scotland, near which is Dunnichen House, a country mansion purchased c. 1700 by a merchant named Dempster, from Dundee. Improvements were made by George Dempster (1735-1818), and agriculturalist and M.P., and it is his estate that appears to be honored by the composition.
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