Annotation:Aberarder Rant

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ABERARDER RANT. AKA and see “Annotation:Farmer’s Daughter (The).” Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A pipe tune, better known in the 20th century as “The Farmer’s Daughter,” under which title it first appears in The Seaforth Highlanders (1936). Anne Gilchrist ["Old Fiddlers' Tune Books of the Georgian Period", JEFDSS, vol. 4, No. 1, Dec. 1940, p. 18] noted that, in her experience, the Rant was a name rather loosely applied of various lively dance-tunes, but properly seemed to her to have belonged to a quick 2/4 time melody.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 70.

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