Annotation:Lady Elgin's Courtship

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LADY ELGIN'S COURTSHIP. AKA and see "Lady Madelina Sinclair's Birthday." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABB. The tune appears as "Lady Elgin's Courtship" only in the American Ryan/Cole publications, and is not to be found under this title in Scottish collections. It has been suggested (by Nigel Gatherer, for one) that this melody resembles "Boyne Hunt."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 33. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 60.

Recorded sources:

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