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'''SADNESS OF LIFE, THE.''' Scottish, Air (4/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the renowned Scottish fiddle-composer [[biography:James Scott Skinner]] (1847-1928). | '''SADNESS OF LIFE, THE.''' Scottish, Air (4/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed in 1890 by the renowned Scottish fiddle-composer [[biography:James Scott Skinner]] (1847-1928) and dedicated to his friend and fellow fiddler composer [[biography:Peter Milne]]. Milne was a mentor and sometime playing partner of Skinner's, but became addicted to narcotics after taking them while recovering from a injury. Milne died in 1908 in an insane asylum after a long decline. In his handwritten score of the tune Skinner appended two lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson: | ||
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''Ah! That a man would arise in me ''<br> | |||
''That the man I am may cease to be'.''<br> | |||
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See also listing at:<Br> | |||
See Skinner's handwritten score at the Univ. of Aberdeen's Skinner site [https://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0034]<br> | |||
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SADNESS OF LIFE, THE. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed in 1890 by the renowned Scottish fiddle-composer biography:James Scott Skinner (1847-1928) and dedicated to his friend and fellow fiddler composer biography:Peter Milne. Milne was a mentor and sometime playing partner of Skinner's, but became addicted to narcotics after taking them while recovering from a injury. Milne died in 1908 in an insane asylum after a long decline. In his handwritten score of the tune Skinner appended two lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Ah! That a man would arise in me
That the man I am may cease to be'.