Crowhillock

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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	Biography:John Glen
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music vol. 2 (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 2
Year of publication/Date of MS	1895
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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: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 2. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 119.

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T:Crowhillock
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L:1/8
R:Strathspey
S:Glen Collection
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
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