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," collected from the playing of fiddler Peter Turbit by Alan Feldman and Eamonn O'Doherty and printed in their volume Northern Fiddler (1979).

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: Borders Traditions vol. 3" (2004).



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