Annotation:Goat Pen (The): Difference between revisions

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GOAT PEN, THE (Crò nan Gobhar). AKA and see "Goat's Song (The)." Scottish, Jig. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "The Goat Pen, supposed remotely situated, appears, by the Gaelic words, to have been the rendezvous of two lovers. It is long known as a Scotch dance, but makes a beautiful and delicate air, if slowly performed, worthy of suitable words, and is inserted to reclaim it as a Highland melody" (Fraser). See Francis O'Neill's version under the title "Goat's Song (The)."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 22, p. 8.

Recorded sources:

Tune properties and standard notation

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-'''GOAT PEN, THE''' (Crò nan Gobhar). Scottish, Jig. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "The Goat Pen, supposed remotely situated, appears, by the Gaelic words, to have been the rendezvous of two lovers. It is long known as a Scotch dance, but makes a beautiful and delicate air, if slowly performed, worthy of suitable words, and is inserted to reclaim it as a Highland melody" (Fraser). See Francis O'Neill's version under the title "[[Goat's Song (The)]]."
+'''GOAT PEN, THE''' (Crò nan Gobhar). AKA and see "[[Goat's Song (The)]]." Scottish, Jig. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. "The Goat Pen, supposed remotely situated, appears, by the Gaelic words, to have been the rendezvous of two lovers. It is long known as a Scotch dance, but makes a beautiful and delicate air, if slowly performed, worthy of suitable words, and is inserted to reclaim it as a Highland melody" (Fraser). See Francis O'Neill's version under the title "[[Goat's Song (The)]]."
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