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'''MR. FORBES MORRISON'''. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Alexander Walker in honor of Mr. Forbes Morrison, a | '''MR. FORBES MORRISON'''. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Alexander Walker in honor of Mr. Forbes Morrison (1833-1906), who was, according to Hunter (1979), a fiddler and dancing master in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, expert in the use of the Scottish fiddle ornaments of short snap bow and syncopated triplets. See also J. Scott Skinner's composition "[[Forbes Morrison]]." | ||
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Revision as of 03:21, 9 December 2011
Tune properties and standard notation
MR. FORBES MORRISON. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Alexander Walker in honor of Mr. Forbes Morrison (1833-1906), who was, according to Hunter (1979), a fiddler and dancing master in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, expert in the use of the Scottish fiddle ornaments of short snap bow and syncopated triplets. See also J. Scott Skinner's composition "Forbes Morrison."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Walker (A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Marches, &c.), 1866; No. 24, p. 9.
Recorded sources: