Annotation:Highland Lilt
Tune properties and standard notation
HIGHLAND LILT. Scottish, Country Dance (whole time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The generically-titled melody was published by John & William Neal in A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin, 1724).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 56 (appears as "The Haymakers", the name of a dance set to the tune).
Recorded sources: