Annotation:Farewell to the Tay
Tune properties and standard notation
FAREWELL TO THE TAY. Scottish, March (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was originally composed as a 6/8 pipe march and appears in David Glen's Highland Bagpipe Tutor (1876-1901). Cape Breton fiddlers have converted it to a fiddle jig.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; p. 15.
Recorded sources: Rounder 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey - "From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977" (2000).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]