Annotation:MacLauchlane's Scotch Measure
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MACLACHLAN'S SCOTS MEASURE. AKA - "McLachlan's Scotch Measure," "MacLauchlane's Scotch Measure." Scottish, Scottish Measure. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in Alexander McGlashan's Collection of Scots Measures (late 18th century). Emmerson (1971) believes it likely that MacLachlan was a dancer or a musician, otherwise the honorific "Mr." would have been inserted in the title.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 152. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 2), 1800; p. 3.
Recorded sources: Rounder Records, "Traditional Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, Volume 4: MacKinnon's Brook" (2008).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
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