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X:1
T:Annie is My Darling
M:C
L:1/8
B:Köhlers' Violin Repository, Book Third (p. 230)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:A
c|A2 (AE) CEAB|(cd)Bc (AF)FA|(GA)AE (CE)Ae|cAec B2 A:||
d|ce {e/f/}e2 cf {f/g/}f2|ec(c{d/c/}B) (AF)Fd|ce {e/f/}e2 (ce)fg|(ag)fe f{g/f/}^efg|
(ag)fe (fg)af|(ec)dB (cA)FA|GAEA CEA,e|cAec {B/c/}B2 A||
ANNIE/ANNA IS MY DARLING (Anna thug mi gradh dhuit). Scottish (originally), Canadian; Reel. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard or AEae fiddle tunings. AAB. Composed by Captain Simon Fraser, compiler of the Fraser Collection, originally dated 1815. The editor of the 1986 edition, Paul Cranford of Cape Breton, says it is a good tune for a "raised bass", or AEae tuning. The tune "celebrates the beauty of a young lady, in terms which she thinks so very far beyond her due, that she requested her name to remain uncommunicated" (Fraser).
Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Allan MacDonald (b. 1950, Bangor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Simon Fraser's collection [Henderson].
Printed sources : - Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1816; No. 30, p. 10. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 2), No. 16, p. 5. Laybourn (Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 3), 1885; p. 230. Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 6, 1844–1845; p. 3. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 31 (as "Annie is my darling"). Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 107. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 19.
Recorded sources : - Canadian Broadcasting Corp. NMAS 1972, Natalie MacMaster – "Fit as a Fiddle" (1993). Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX187, Jonnie Hardie - "The Captain's Collection" (1999).
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