Annotation:Bob o' Dooly (The)

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BOB O' DOOLY, THE. AKA and see "Carlin is Your Daughter Ready?," "Jenny Cameron's Rant," "Port Nan Con." Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole): AABB (Hunter). The tune is from a collection by Scottish composer Robert Mackintosh. See also Northumbrian musician William Vickers' 1770 version as "Jenny Cameron's Rant."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 117 (arranged for string quintet by James Hunter). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 14.

Recorded sources:




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