Annotation:Gairntully's Rant
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GAIRNTULLY'S RANT. AKA - "Gairntully's Reel." AKA and see "Marquis of Lorne (2)." Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). The melody appears in the Drummond Castle Manuscript, Part 2 (1734, No. 2), in the possession of the Earl of Ancaster at Drummond Castle. It is inscribed "A Collection of the best Highland Reels written by biography:David Young, W.M. & Accomptant," and is sometimes called the Duke of Perth Manuscript after its' dedicatee. Dunkeld fiddler-composer wikipedia:Niel Gow (1727-1806) set the tune as a strathspey, calling it the "Marquis of Lorne (2)," which is often credited to him.
