Colonel Crafurd's Reel

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 Theme code Index    13L13 2426L
 Also known as    Earl of Dalkeith
 Composer/Core Source    
 Region    Scotland
 Genre/Style    Scottish
 Meter/Rhythm    Reel (single/double)
 Key/Tonic of    F
 Accidental    1 flat
 Mode    Ionian (Major)
 Time signature    2/2
 History    
 Structure    AAB
 Editor/Compiler    Biography:John Glen
 Book/Manuscript title    Book:Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music
 Tune and/or Page number    p. 12
 Year of publication/Date of MS    1891
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COL(L)ONEL CRAFURD'S REEL. AKA and see "Earl of Dalkeith('s Reel)." Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Glen (1891) finds the tune earliest in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (under the above title), although it later appeared in Gow's Third Collection, 1792 (p. 20), under the title of "The Earl of Dalkeith's Reel."

Printed source: Glen (Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 12.


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T:Collonel Crafurd's Reel (sic)
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L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Bremner - Scots Reels (c. 1757)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:F
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e | f>gag fefc | d/d/d b>a gdde | f>gag fefc | dfcf !trill!A>GFe | 
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