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'''CAPILLAIRE MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet. Composed by Thomas Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fenton, Sixth Earl of Kelly, born at Kellie Castle in Fife in 1732 (and familiarly known as "Fiddler Tam") in honor of the Capillaire Club in Edinburgh, which he is credited with having founded. The club was one of the convivial organizations of the 18th century and the capillaire itself was a kind of cocktail which the members drank exclusively from small liqueur glasses engraved with the name (Pulver, 1992). Erskine died in 1781. The melody appears in the Brown Manuscript. | '''CAPILLAIRE MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet. Composed by [[biography:Thomas Alexander Erskine]], Viscount Fenton, Sixth Earl of Kelly, born at Kellie Castle in Fife in 1732 (and familiarly known as "Fiddler Tam") in honor of the Capillaire Club in Edinburgh, which he is credited with having founded. The club was one of the convivial organizations of the 18th century and the capillaire itself was a kind of cocktail which the members drank exclusively from small liqueur glasses engraved with the name (Pulver, 1992). Erskine died in 1781. The melody appears in the Brown Manuscript (Lake District, England). | ||
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CAPILLAIRE MINUET. Scottish, Minuet. Composed by biography:Thomas Alexander Erskine, Viscount Fenton, Sixth Earl of Kelly, born at Kellie Castle in Fife in 1732 (and familiarly known as "Fiddler Tam") in honor of the Capillaire Club in Edinburgh, which he is credited with having founded. The club was one of the convivial organizations of the 18th century and the capillaire itself was a kind of cocktail which the members drank exclusively from small liqueur glasses engraved with the name (Pulver, 1992). Erskine died in 1781. The melody appears in the Brown Manuscript (Lake District, England).
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