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|f_annotation='''LASSIE AN' SILLER AN' A'S MY AIN. ''' AKA - "Lassie and Silver."Scottish, Jig or Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Lassie an' Siller an' a's my ain" is a 6/8 time air or jig that can be found in Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, dancing master and fiddler-composer [[biography:William Christie]]'s 1820 collection. Christie (1778-1849) described the tune as "old" and stated it was communicated to him by J. Allardyce (who also "communicated" a few other old Aberdeenshire tunes in Christie's collection, "[[Warld's gane o'er me now (The)]]," "[[I'll Hae a Piper to My Gudeman]]," and "[[Duncan Swine's Wife]]"). Scottish mathematician and music collector J. Murdoch Henderson noted that the tune is a version of "[[Saw ye a | |f_annotation='''LASSIE AN' SILLER AN' A'S MY AIN. ''' AKA - "Lassie and Silver."Scottish, Jig or Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Lassie an' Siller an' a's my ain" is a 6/8 time air or jig that can be found in Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, dancing master and fiddler-composer [[biography:William Christie]]'s 1820 collection. Christie (1778-1849) described the tune as "old" and stated it was communicated to him by J. Allardyce (who also "communicated" a few other old Aberdeenshire tunes in Christie's collection, "[[Warld's gane o'er me now (The)]]," "[[I'll Hae a Piper to My Gudeman]]," and "[[Duncan Swine's Wife]]"). Scottish mathematician and music collector J. Murdoch Henderson noted that the tune is a version of James Oswald's "[[Saw ye a lassie of fifteen years]]," which itself is a version of the popular air "[[Would You have a Young Virgin]]" AKA "Poor Robin's Maggot," printed in John Young's '''The Second Volume of the Dancing Master''' (London, 1710). The tune is said to predate even that publication, dating to the time of the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) (as "Poor Robin's Maggot"). The tune was recorded by Cape Breton fiddler Paddy LeBlanc in the 1960's as "Lassie and Silver." | ||
|f_printed_sources=William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.)''' Edinburgh, 1820; p. 20. | |f_printed_sources=William Christie ('''Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Waltzes &c.)''' Edinburgh, 1820; p. 20. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=<span>Dell Daisy Records, "Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola" (2013).</span> | |f_recorded_sources=<span>Dell Daisy Records, "Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola" (2013).</span> | ||
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Revision as of 16:39, 30 August 2020
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LASSIE AN' SILLER AN' A'S MY AIN. AKA - "Lassie and Silver."Scottish, Jig or Air (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Lassie an' Siller an' a's my ain" is a 6/8 time air or jig that can be found in Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, dancing master and fiddler-composer biography:William Christie's 1820 collection. Christie (1778-1849) described the tune as "old" and stated it was communicated to him by J. Allardyce (who also "communicated" a few other old Aberdeenshire tunes in Christie's collection, "Warld's gane o'er me now (The)," "I'll Hae a Piper to My Gudeman," and "Duncan Swine's Wife"). Scottish mathematician and music collector J. Murdoch Henderson noted that the tune is a version of James Oswald's "Saw ye a lassie of fifteen years," which itself is a version of the popular air "Would You have a Young Virgin" AKA "Poor Robin's Maggot," printed in John Young's The Second Volume of the Dancing Master (London, 1710). The tune is said to predate even that publication, dating to the time of the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) (as "Poor Robin's Maggot"). The tune was recorded by Cape Breton fiddler Paddy LeBlanc in the 1960's as "Lassie and Silver."
