Annotation:Clunies Reel (1)

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CLUNIES REEL [1]. AKA - "Clurie's Reell." AKA and see "Carrick," "Carrick's Rant." Scottish; Reel or Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in biography:Angus Cumming's [1] 1780 collection (p. 19, as "Clurie's Reell"). See also note for "Annotation:Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them All." See also some versions of "Dinna Think Bonnie Lassie"/"Dinna think bonnie lassie I'm gaun to leave you", a song whose air is borrowed from "Clunie's Reel."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cumming (Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels), 1780; No. 57, p. 19.

Recorded sources:




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