Annotation:Forest Where the Deer Resort (The)
Tune properties and standard notation
FOREST WHERE THE DEER RESORT, THE (Sud an gleann 'sam be na feidh). AKA and see "Deer Forest (The)." Scottish, Strathspey. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. "Sung with inimitable humour by the late Alexander Fraser, Esq. of Culduthel, and the editor's grandfather" (Fraser). It was printed in James Stewart-Robertson's Athole Collection (1884) as "Deer Forest (The)."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816/1874; No. 25, p. 9. Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 2, 1881-1885; p. 182.
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