Annotation:Gorthleck's Highland Plaid

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GORTHLECK'S HIGHLAND PLAID (Breacan ur Ghir Ghortuileic). Scottish, Strathspey. E Mixoldyian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD. See note for "Belted Plaid and Health to Wear It (The)." From the Simon Fraser collection (1816). Thomas Fraser of Gorthleck was Simon Fraser's maternal grandfather.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 231, p. 94. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 276.

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Tune properties and standard notation