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Theme code Index	151H5 1H52H2
Also known as	Broom's Reel, Duke of Perth's Reel, Duke of Riff's Reel, Fashion o da Delting Lasses (Da), Lolly Pops and Bulls Eyes, Lord Rockingham's Reel, Love in a Village (3), McDonald's Reel, Scamden's Cade, Scampden's Cade, Diùc Pheairst
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	2/2
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Robert Bremner
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Scots Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 8
Year of publication/Date of MS	c. 1757
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Tune annotations

X:1
T:Duke of Perth's Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Robert Bremner - A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances (London, 1757, p. 8) 
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion 
K:G
B|(G/A/B/c/ d)B gBdB|gBdB aAAB|(G/A/B/c/ d)B dBdB|cAdc BG G:|
|:f|gage abaf|gage beef|gage abaf|gddc BG G:|]

X:2
T:Duke of Perth's Reell
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:John Sutherland music manuscript collection, c. 1785
N:Sutherland was a pastoral piper from Aberdeenshire
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
B|(G/A/B/c/) dB gBdB|GBdB aAAB|(G/A/B/c/) dB gBdB|cAdc BG G2:|
|:f|gage abaf|gage beef|gage abaf|gddc BG G2:||

X:2
T:Duke of Perth's Reel
S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.
Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/5/04
N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 6
% Gore's Index gives earliest publication as James Aird's 
% "Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs" v4 ca 1790
L:1/8
M:C
R:Reel
K:G
B|(G/A/B/c/ d)B gBdB|gBdB a(AAB)|(G/A/B/c/ d)B gBdB|cA (d/c/B/A/ B)GG:|
|:f|gage abaf|gage b(eef)| gage abaf|gedc BGG:|

X:1
T:Duke of Perth's Reel, The
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:The Buttery Manuscript (c. 1784-1820, No. 493)
N:John Buttery (1784-1854) joined  the 34th Regiment in Lincoln, 
N:Lincolnshire, England, in 1797 and served as a fifer until discharged in 
N:1814. His large ms. contains marches, duty calls, dance tunes and airs. 
N:EASMES identifies this as the Fife MS. and suggests a date of 1780, see
N:https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
B|G/A/B/c/ dB gBdB|gBdB aAAB|(G/A/B/)c/ dB gBdB|cAdc BGG:|
|:f|gage abaf|gage beef|gage abag|gdec BGG:|]

X:1
T:Duke of Perth's Reel
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:John Rook music manuscript collection (1840, p. 28)
N:Rook was a multi-instrumentalist from Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
G/A/B/c/ dB gBdB|gBdB aAAB|G/A/B/c/ dB gBdB|cA d/c/B/A/ BG G2:|
|:gage gage|gage beef|gage abaf|gddc BG G2:|

X:1
T:Diùc Pheairst
T:Duke of Perth's Reel
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
N:"A Gaelic Air"
B:William Gunn - The Caledonian Repository of Music 
B:Adapted for the Bagpipes (Glasgow, 1848, p. 7)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:G
B|gage a2 ae|gage fdd<e|gage a2 ae|fedc BGG:|
|:B|GBdB g2 dB|g2 dB aAAe|GBdB g2 dB|cAdc BGG:|]

X:4
T:Duke of Perth
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection  (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
B|G>B dB gBdB|gBdB aAAB|G>B dB gBdB|cAdc BGG:|
f|gage abaf|gage beef|gage abaf|gdec BGGf|
gage abaf|gage beef|gage abaf|gdec BGG||

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