Annotation:North Hunt (The)

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NORTH HUNT {MEDLEY}, THE (An t-Sealg). AKA and see "Northern Meeting (The)." Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. This tune and "Rendezvous (The)" "form a medley, complimentary to the Northern Meeting, which becomes, in every month of October, the rendezvous of all the beauty and fashion in the north of Scotland" (Fraser). The tune is likely written by Capt. Simon Fraser.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 172, p. 70. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 178.

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