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Theme code Index	5135 6542
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Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	SCOTLAND(Western Isles)
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:George Farquhar Graham & Finlay Dunn
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Celtic Melodies Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs Pipe-Reels and Cainntearachd vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	No. 16, p. 10
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1830
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X:1
T: Cainntearachd [2]
M:C
L:1/8
R:Cainntearached - A type of Scots Gaelic mouth music sung in reel
R:time, meant to be a vehicle for dancing, often with nonsense words.
N:Cainnterached is pronounced "Canderach".
B:Celtic Melodies, Being a Collection of Original Slow Highland Airs,
B:Pipe-Reels, and Cainntearachd, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, c. 1830, No. 16, p. 10)
N:"Selected and Arranged by a Highlander." The editors have been
N:identified as Finlay Dunn and George Farquhar Graham
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
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d2 G<d B<B d2|e<cd<B cAAB/c/|d2 G<d B<B d2|e2e2 d<B B>A||
B<B c>A B<B g2|fe ef dB Bc|B<B cA B<B g2|f2 e<e A2A2|
B<B cA B<B g2|fe ef dB B<c|B<B c<A B<B g2|fe ef A2A||

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