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MORAG'S WEDDING. Canadian, Scottish; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). Dunlay and Greenberg believe the tune may have been a pipe strathspey as they find it it Barry Shears' Cape Breton Collection of Bagpipe Music, taken from the Angus J. MacNeil MS, a manuscript of pipe tunes from around 1900 found in Cape Breton.

Source for notated version: Donald MacLellan, learned from his father, Ronald MacLellan [Dunaly & Greenberg].

Printed sources: Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton), 1996; p. 34.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings [1]




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