Annotation:Fiddler's Contempt

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 FIDDLER'S CONTEMPT, THE (Fuath nam Fidhleirean). Irish/Scottish, Air. One of the compositions of Ulster-born (d. 1653) Rorie Dall (O'Caithean or O'Cahan), harper to several Scottish noble families. It has also been attribued to the Scottish harper Ruaidhri (Rory) Dall Morison (c. 1656-1713 or 1714, a similarly named musician who is often confused with O'Cahan) who notoriously disliked the fiddle. It appears, with a few of his other works, in Donald Dow's (1732-1783) Collection of Ancient Scots Music and at the end of Bruce Armstrong's The Highland Harp. O'Neill (1913) gives the title as "Fiddler's Content (The)."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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