Annotation:Peter Hardie's Lament for Sir R. Dick
PETER HARDIE'S LAMENT FOR SIR M. DICK. Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Peter Hardie (c. 1775-1863), who has been said to have been a cousin to the great Scottish violin maker Matthew Hardie (1775-1826). Hardie may also have worked as a gamekeeper on the Atholl estate, and may have been influenced there by Niel Gow, as his tunes show stylistic similarities. The musical Hardie family continued with Peter's descendants Bill Hardie (b. 1913) and Bill's son Alastair (b. 1946). Peter was a student of Niel Gow's and spent most of his life in the Dunkeld, Perthshire, area. See also Peter Hardie's composition "Lochordy Lodge," a reel from his music manuscript collection.
Pete Clark, for one, believes it was the intention of the composer that the tune should be played in dotted rhythm throughout the tune[1].
- ↑ Clark's opinion is based on the initial measure of Peter Hardie's original draft in which 'dotted rhythm' is suggested in onyy the first bar.