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|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
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|f_book_title=Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music vol. 2 (The)
|f_book_title=Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.
|f_collector=Archibald Duff
|f_collector=Archibald Duff
|f_year=1794
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 Theme code Index    1153 5L557L
 Also known as    
 Composer/Core Source    Archibald Duff
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Strathspey
 Key/Tonic of    A
 Accidental    3 sharps
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    4/4
 History    
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    Archibald Duff
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 11
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1794
 Artist    
 Title of recording    
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X:1 T:Crowhillock M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey S:Glen Collection Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A E | A>BAa ecce | E>Fec e/d/c/A/ GBc|cA>BAa e<cce | d/c/B/A/ G>B A/A/A A :| f | a>bae c>dec | d>edc B>cdB | a>bae c>dec | d/c/B/A/ GB A/A/A Af | a>bae c>dec |d>edc B>cdB | A<Ec<A e<ca<c | d/c/B/A/ G>B A/A/A A ||



CROWHILLOCK. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Archibald Duff, who published his first Collection in 1794. Duff was born in Montrose, but later moved to Aberdeen to assume the music/dancing master practice of the famous Francis Peacock. Crowhillock is in Kindardineshire, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. Place-names of West Aberdeenshire (1899), by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon and Sir Charles Edward Troup, gives that Crow Hillock was "Part of Braeside Wood, on which are very old Scotch firs, where there has been a rookery 'for ages past' ".

Printed sources: Archibald Duff (Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.), 1794; p. 11. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 2. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 119.