Annotation:Invercauld's Reel (2)

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X:1 T:Invercaul's Reel T:Invercauld's Reel [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Robert Bremner – “For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances” (p. 107) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Dmix B|D/D/D EG TA>GEG|D/D/D E>G c2 ce|dBgB TA>GEG|D/D/D E>G A2A:| |:B-|c>ABG TA>GEB-|cBcd efge|dBgB TA>GEG|D/D/D E>G A3:|




INVERCAULLD'S/INVERCAULD'S REEL. AKA and see "O Tibby I hae seen the day." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Invercauld House, a baronial mansion in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, built on the site of an older castle, is the seat of Clan Farquharson. Musically, the tune is pentatonic or hexatonic, except for grace notes. The second strain of "Invercauld's Reel" is the same as the first strain of "John R. Fraser." See also strathspeys that go by the same title, "Invercauld (1)" and "Invercauld (2)."

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Printed sources : - Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 38, pp. 60-61. Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.), 1796; p. 24.

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