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'''GLADSTONE'S REEL'''. AKA - "[[A.A. Gladstone (Edinburgh)]]," "[[Gladstone (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABAAC (Hunter, Martin & Hughes). Composed by the self-styled 'Strathspey King', J. Scott Skinner (1846-1927). Played as part of the romantically entitled set "Warblings From the Hill's" during Skinner's 1921 concert tours. | '''GLADSTONE'S REEL'''. AKA - "[[A.A. Gladstone (Edinburgh)]]," "[[Gladstone (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABAAC (Hunter, Martin & Hughes). Composed by the self-styled 'Strathspey King', J. Scott Skinner (1846-1927). Played as part of the romantically entitled set "Warblings From the Hill's" during Skinner's 1921 concert tours. The composer penned the reel [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0243] in 1909, entitling it simply "Gladstane" [sic]. | ||
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Tune properties and standard notation
GLADSTONE'S REEL. AKA - "A.A. Gladstone (Edinburgh)," "Gladstone (The)." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skinner): AABAAC (Hunter, Martin & Hughes). Composed by the self-styled 'Strathspey King', J. Scott Skinner (1846-1927). Played as part of the romantically entitled set "Warblings From the Hill's" during Skinner's 1921 concert tours. The composer penned the reel [1] in 1909, entitling it simply "Gladstane" [sic].
Source for notated version: Jean Carignan (Montreal, Canada) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; p. 121. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 232. Martin & Hughes (Ho-ro-gheallaidh), 1990; p. 25. Phillips (Fiddlecase Tunebook), 1989; p. 22.
Recorded sources: BM-91, Buddy MacMaster - "Glencoe Hall" (appears as "The Gladstone"). Green Linnett GLCD 1137, Altan - "Island Angel" (1993). Philo 2001, "Jean Carignan" (appears as the fourth tune of the "J. Scott Skinner Medley"). RC2000, George Wilson - "The Royal Circus" (2000). Topic 12T280, J. Scott Skinner- "The Strathspey King".
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [2]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [3]