Annotation:Aberarder Rant
X:1 T:Aberarder Rant M:C L:1/8 R:Reel S:MacDonald – Skye Collection (1887) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D B|d2 ag f2 ef|d2 dB d2 de|d2 ag f2 ef|A<AeA cAA:| |:B|d2 fd B<BfB|dBfB dBB>c|d2 [fg]B B<BfB|c<AeA cAAB| d2 fd B<BfB|dBfB dBB>c| dcde faef|A<AeA cAA||
ABERARDER RANT. AKA and see “Annotation:Farmer's Daughter (1).” Scottish, Pipe Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. A pipe tune, better known in the 20th century as “The Farmer’s Daughter,” under which title it first appears in The Seaforth Highlanders (1936). Anne Gilchrist ["Old Fiddlers' Tune Books of the Georgian Period", JEFDSS, vol. 4, No. 1, Dec. 1940, p. 18] noted that, in her experience, the Rant was a name rather loosely applied of various lively dance-tunes, but properly seemed to her to have belonged to a quick 2/4 time melody.
