Annotation:Captain Gillans
Tune properties and standard notation
CAPTAIN GILLAN(S). Scottish, Slow Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Hunter): AABB (Skye). Composed by William Christie (1778-1849), a dancing master in Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire, who published his collection in 1820.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 116. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 27.
Recorded sources: