Annotation:Angus Ranald's Big Tune Strathspey: Difference between revisions
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Dunlay and Greenbert (1996) print two versions of this (so-called) 'double-tonic' melody, one a "crooked setting" (Mary MacDonald). The 'A' and 'B' parts are reversed from one version to another. The strathspey can be played in standard or AEae tuning on the fiddle. AAB (Dunlay & Greenberg/Beaton): ABB'CC'BB' (Dunlay & Greenberg/MacDonald).
Sources for notated versions: Donald Angus and Kinnon Beaton, and Mary MacDonald (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg].
Printed version: Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton), 1996; pgs. 126-127.
Recorded versions: NQD-5447, Doug MacPhee - "Cape Breton Master of the Keyboard" (appears as "Josie MacArthur's Strathspey"). Rounder 7011, "The Beatons of Mabou: Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton" (1978).