X:1
T:Miss Crawford's Reel
T:Miss Crawford’s (Reel) (5)
N:"See (Barry’s) large book for Miss Crawford’s Strathspey."
C:James Barry
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B: James Barry music manuscript collection (No. 22, p. 12)
N: Barry (1819-1905) was a miller and fiddler who lived at
N:Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
F: https://jamesbarrymusic.ca
K:A
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MISS CRAWFORD'S [REEL] [5]. Canadian, Reel (cut time). Canada, Nova Scotia. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Crawford's (Reel) [5]" was composed by miller and amateur fiddler [[biography:James Barry|]] (1812-1905) of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and appears in a small copybook of his compositions [1]. Barry was a skilled musician capable of difficult position playing. He composed this reel as a companion piece to MacAlpin's "Miss Crawford's Strathspey". See also "Miss Crawford (Reel) (2)" for MacAlpin's own companion reel to the strathspey.
