Annotation:John Angus Beaton Strathspey
Tune properties and standard notation
JOHN ANGUS BEATON STRATHSPEY. Canadian, Strathspey. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Mabou Coal Mines, Cape Breton, fiddler Kinnon Beaton.
Source for notated version: Allan MacDonald (b. c. 1950, Bangor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
Printed sources: Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 193.
Recorded sources: Rounder 7011, "The Beatons of Mabou: Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton" (1978).