Annotation:Blue Yowe (Da)

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BLUE YOWE, DA. Shetland, Shetland Reel. Shetland, Unst. D Major ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Bain and Anderson say the tune is a descriptive piece by Fredamann Stickle of a quarrel between two women about who owned a uniquely colored female sheep. See the Shetland story "Essie Pattle an da Blue Yowe."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson (Haand Me Doon da Fiddle), 1979; No. 49.

Recorded sources: Topic 12TS379, Aly Bain & Tom Anderson - "Shetland Folk Fiddling, vol. 2" (1978). Boys of the Low - "The Day Dawn."

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