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SHETLAND BOSTON. English, March or Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The tune was composed as a 6/8 march by Shetland fiddler-composer Frank Jamieson[1].

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : -

Recorded sources: -English Country Dance and Song Society - "Traditional Dance Airs, 2." Alcazar Dance Series FR 204, Rodney Miller - "New England Chestnuts 2" (1981).



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  1. Peter Cooke, The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles, 1986, p. 73.