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Theme code Index
1157bL 157b4
Also known as
Thearlaich! Nan Tigeadh Tu (1) , Charlie if Only You Would Come , Charlie's Welcome (2) , Fourth of June (The) , MacDonald's Quickstep , MacDonald's Reel (2) , Miss Flora McDonald's Reel , Miss MacDonald’s (4) , If Charlie Comes
Composer/Core Source
Region
Scotland, Canada
Genre/Style
Cape Breton/PEI, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm
Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of
E
Accidental
2 sharps
Mode
Dorian
Time signature
2/2
History
CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure
AB, AAB, AABB
Editor/Compiler
Joseph Lowe
Book/Manuscript title
Book:Lowe's Collection of Reels Strathspeys and Jigs Book 2
Tune and/or Page number
p. 13
Year of publication/Date of MS
1844-45
Artist
Title of recording
Record label/Catalogue nr.
Year recorded
Media
Score (1 )
X:1
T:Flora McDonald's Reel
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:John Rook music manuscript collection (Waverton, Cumbria, 1840, p. 234)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Emin
F|E2 EF BEEF|E2 EF dDDF|E2 EF EFGA|B/c/d AG FDD:|
|:F|Eeed eEEF|Eee^c dDDF|Eeed BcdB|Agfe dDD:|]
X:1
T:Flora MacDonald
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B: Joseph Lowe - Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs,
B:book 2 (1844–1845, p. 13)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Edor
F|E2 EF (BE)EF|E2 EF (dF)DF|E2 EF (EF)GA|BdAd FDD:|
F|Eee^d eEEF|Eeec dDDF|Eeed Bcde|faef dDAF|
Eee^d eEEF |Eeec dDAF|Eeed Bcde|faef dDAF||
X:1
T:Thearlaich! Nan Tigeadh Tu!
T:Flora MacDonald
M:C|
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Emin
F|~E2 EF BFDF|~E2 B^c dBAF|~E2 EF EFGA|BdAd FDDF|
~E2 B^G BEEe|~E2 B^c dBAF|~E2 EF EFGA|BdAG FDDF||
Eee^d BEEF|Eee^c dBAF|Eee^d B^cde|faef dBAF|
EeBe dEBE|EeBe dBAF|EeBe deBe|faef dBAF||