Annotation:Farewell to the Glen

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FAREWELL TO THE GLEN (Beannachd leis a ghleann). Scottish, Quickstep (2/4 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. A quickstep march composed by Scottish fiddler-composer and dancing master biography:J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927), dedicated to John MacDonald of Buckie. MacDonald was a banker, and, like several of the dedicatees of Skinner's tune in The Logie Collection, a member of the Gaelic Society of Inverness. The melody also appears in J. Murdoch Henderson's Scottish Music Maker (1957), a handwritten compilation of the music J. Scott Skinner. Cape Breton fiddler Dan Joe MacInnis recorded the tune c. 1965.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Skinner (The Logie Collection), 1888; p. 77.

Recorded sources: Alcazar Dance Series FR 204, "New England Chestnuts 2" (1981).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]

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