Annotation:Miss Elder (1)
Back to Miss Elder (1)
MISS ELDER [1]. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford): AAB (Glen). The melody was composed by Biography:Robert Petrie and appears in his c. 1790 1st collection.
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 28. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 143, p. 58. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 58. Petrie (Collection of Strathspey Reels and County Dances), 1790; p. 22.
Recorded sources:
Back to Miss Elder (1)