CLYDESDALE LASSES. AKA - "Clydesdale Lassies." AKA and see "Cuisinière (La)," "Quadrille Montcalm." Scottish, Reel or Country Dance. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Kerr, MacDonald, Stewart-Robertson). Another tune in honor of some Scottish local girls (like "Lothian Lasses," "Ayrshire Lasses," "Lasses of Duns," "Lasses of Stewarton," etc.), published by Nathaniel Gow in 1822. In ancient times the River Clyde marked the frontier of the old Celtic British kingdom in the north with the Picts. The name Clyde comes from the Brittonic Cluth. MacDonald says the melody can be played as a reel or a strathspey.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Nathaniel Gow's 6th collection (1822) [Henderson]; Joshua Campbell's collection [Moffat].
Printed sources : - Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; p. 31. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Kerr (Merry Melodies vol. 1), c. 1880; Set 22, No. 2, p. 14. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 139. Moffat (Dance Music of the North), 1908; No. 17, p. 6. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 204. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 3.
Recorded sources : - Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert (Cape Breton, N.S.) - "In Jig Time!" (1995). Culburnie Records CUL, Alasdiar Fraser & Paul Machlis - "Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, vol. 2" (2001).
See also listing at : Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [2].
