Annotation:Miss Katty Gordon of Earlston's Reel

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MISS KATTY GORDON OF EARLSTON(‘S REEL). Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 second collection (p. 24).

A County Donegal version of Riddell's reel goes by the name "Kitty Gordon's."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 4. Moffat (Dance Music of the North), 1908; No. 35, p. 15. John Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets &c. for the Violin), 1782; p. 24.

Recorded sources: Isle Music Scotland ISLE 01CD, Borders Young Fiddles ‎– "Borders Young Fiddles" (2004).



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