Annotation:Dalkeith Fair
X:1 T:Dalkeith Fair M:C L:1/8 R:Reel C:"Marshall" B:Davie’s Caledonian Repository (Aberdeen, 1829-30, p. 35) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B|GBdB gBdB|GBdB A/A/A A2|GBdB gBdB|AGAB G/G/G G2:| {ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB A/A/A A2|{ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB G/G/G G2| {ef}g2 dB {ef}g2 dB|AGAB A/A/A A2|efge abge|dBcA G/G/G G2|| g2 fg afge|dBgB A/A/A A2|g2 fg afge|d2B2 cA G/G/G G2| g2 fg afge|dBgB A/A/A Aa|gbfa egfe|dBcA G/G/G G||
DALKEITH FAIR. Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABC. "Dalkeith Fair" is said to have been a composition of Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer biography:William Marshall by James Davie in his Davie's Caledonian Repository, 1829-30), although this attribution has not been confirmed. The reel was published earlier in Edinburgh by Nathaniel Gow, c. 1812, in a flute anthology. A Highland bagpipe setting was published by John & Robert Glen, Edinburgh pipe-makers, in 1870. "Cadgers of the Cannongate" is a closely related fiddle tune dating to the mid-18th century.
Dalkeith Fair was for centuries an annual cattle and livestock fair.