Annotation:Mrs. Melvill Dysart
Tune properties and standard notation
MRS. MELVILL, DYSART. Scottish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford/Holland): AA'B (Glen). Composed by James Walker.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 154, p. 58. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 46.
Recorded sources: Rounder 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey – “From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977” (2000).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]