Crimson Crustacean

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Theme code Index	1511H 47bL54
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Composer/Core Source	Biography:Jack MacLean
Region	Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Pipe
Meter/Rhythm	Jig/Quadrille
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Mixolydian
Time signature	6/8
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AA'BB'CCDD
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Barry W. Shears
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Gathering of the Clans Collection vol. 1
Tune and/or Page number	p. 74
Year of publication/Date of MS	1986
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CRIMSON CRUSTACEAN. Canadian, Jig. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'CCDD. Composed by Nova Scotia piper Jack MacLean, a former member of the Dartmouth and District Pipe Band, later known as Clan Sutherland (Shears). The title references a cooked lobster, the delicacy of the Maritime provinces.

Printed source: Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection, vol. 1), 1986; p. 74.

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