Annotation:Bridge of Dee (2) (The)

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X:1 T:Bridge of Dee [2] C:James Young M:C| L:1/8 B:Joseph Lowe - Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 4 (1844–1845, p. 9) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D A,|D2 FD A,-DFD|G>BAF E/E/E ~E2|D2 FD A,-DFD|G>BAF D/D/D D:| E|Ddcd BcdB|ABAF EFGE|Ddcd Bdeg|fdec d/d/d de| fedc BcdB|edcB ABcA|dcdA Bdeg|fdec d/d/d d||


BRIDGE OF DEE [2], THE. AKA - "Brig o' Dee (2)." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The companion reel to the strathspey of the same name, also composed by James Young (1815-1851). Young was born in Montrose, the son of a violin/fiddle maker. and at the age of twenty-two, in 1837, he moved to Aberdeen to work as a teacher and leader of the orchestra in the Theatre Royal, Marischal Street.

James's older brother John Young (c. 1812-1884) was also a violin maker, well-known in Aberdeen. He repaired the J. Scott Skinner's father's violin "in order that he might learn again with the left hand having shot off some fingers at a marriage" (handwritten note accompanying Skinner's manuscript copy of "Brig o' Dee").

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - Joseph Lowe's Collection, Book 4 [Henderson].

Printed sources : - Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 207. Lowe (Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 4), 1845; p. 9. Milne (Middleton’s Selection of Strathspeys, Reels &c. for the Violin), 1870; p. 10.

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