Annotation:Captain Gillans

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CAPTAIN GILLAN(S). Scottish, Slow Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Hunter): AABB (Skye). Composed by William Christie (1778-1849), a dancing master, fiddler and composer in Cuminestown, Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, who published his collection in 1820. In 1811 Christie married Mary Guthrie, who bore him a son, William (1816 - 1885), who became Dean of Moray from 1860 to 1864, and Dean of Moray, Ross & Caithness from 1864 to 1885.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 116. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 27.

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