Annotation:Captain McKenzie (2)
Tune properties and standard notation
CAPTAIN M'KENZIE [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (p. 2), while Charles Gore gives the earliest publication as John Hamilton's A Choice Coll of Scots Reels, or C.C. & Str.. The melody was included by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances (1796, p. 9).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 137, p. 17. Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1796; p. 9.
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