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'''CANTY BRODY/BODY'''. AKA and see "Thomson's Got a Dirk." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune first published in Alexander McGlashan's collection. 'Canty' means jolly or happy in Scots dialect. | '''CANTY BRODY/BODY'''. AKA and see "Thomson's Got a Dirk." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune first published in Alexander McGlashan's collection, although pieces with this name also appear in John Aitken's '''The Scots Musical Museum''' (1797) and Carr's '''Caledonian Muse''' (Philadelphia, 1798). 'Canty' means jolly or happy in Scots dialect. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
CANTY BRODY/BODY. AKA and see "Thomson's Got a Dirk." Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune first published in Alexander McGlashan's collection, although pieces with this name also appear in John Aitken's The Scots Musical Museum (1797) and Carr's Caledonian Muse (Philadelphia, 1798). 'Canty' means jolly or happy in Scots dialect.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1780/81; p. 27.
Recorded sources: