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MIDNIGHT [2]. Shetlands, A Shetland Reel/Jig? Shetlands, Island of Yell? F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A tune from the early Shetland dance tradition when older tunes were played and danced in a rhythm that is neither duple or triple.

Source for notated version: J. Hoseason's manuscript (mid-Yell, 1863) [Cooke]

Printed sources: Cooke (The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles), 1986; Ex. 25, p. 76.

Recorded sources:

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