Annotation:Glen Where My Love Is (The)

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GLEN WHERE MY LOVE IS, THE. Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC, AABB'CC'D. A pipe tune from (Pipe Major William) Ross's collection (Skye, 1885). A pipe version of the tune originally published by Alexander McGlashan in Edinburgh as "O but Ye be Merry." See also the cognate tunes "Rejected Suitor (The)" and "Duntroon Castle."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 11. William Ross (Ross's Collection of Pipe Music), 1869; No. 219, p. 130.

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