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'''CANTY JEANIE MUNROE'''. Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major (Cranford/Fitzgerlad): B Major (Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1841-1927), who originally set it in the key of B Major (but who gave the direction that it could also be played in B Flat). Canty means jolly or happy in Scottish dialect. | '''CANTY JEANIE MUNROE'''. AKA - "Canty Jeanie Munro." Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major (Cranford/Fitzgerlad): B Major (Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1841-1927), who originally set it in the key of B Major (but who gave the direction that it could also be played in B Flat, "but the general effect would be lessened"). Canty means jolly or happy in Scottish dialect, and it was composed in honor of a violinist, Jeanie Thompson. Ms. Thompson married, and Skinner changed the title accordingly, to "Canty Jeanie Munro" [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0160]. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
CANTY JEANIE MUNROE. AKA - "Canty Jeanie Munro." Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major (Cranford/Fitzgerlad): B Major (Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by the great Scottish fiddler and composer J. Scott Skinner (1841-1927), who originally set it in the key of B Major (but who gave the direction that it could also be played in B Flat, "but the general effect would be lessened"). Canty means jolly or happy in Scottish dialect, and it was composed in honor of a violinist, Jeanie Thompson. Ms. Thompson married, and Skinner changed the title accordingly, to "Canty Jeanie Munro" [1].
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 108, p. 45. Skinner (Miller o' Hirn Collection), 1881. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 121.
Recorded sources: