Annotation:Daft Robin
Tune properties and standard notation
DAFT ROBIN (Robie Donua Gorach). Scottish, Air. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (O'Farrell): AABBCCDDEEFF (Gow). Gow notes it is an "old Highland song." William Stenhouse, in his notes the song "The Captive Ribband" in his Illustrations of the lyric poetry and music of Scotland (1853), says the "Daft Robin" tune is "evidently a slight alteration of the fine old triple time tune, entitled 'Earl Douglas's Lament', which may be seen in Oswald's collection, book vii, p. 30."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 538. Gow (The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 36. O'Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. III), c. 1808; p. 14.
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