Annotation:Glen Tilt Lodge

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 GLEN TILT LODGE. AKA and see "Ca' the Wethers to the Hill," "Glentilt." Scottish, Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Dunlay): AABB' (Kerr). A double-tonic tune. The melody appears as "Duke of Athol's Forest Lodge--Glen Tilt" in Alexander McGlashan's A Collection of Reels (1786). Glen Tilt is in Perthshire, Scotland, visited in 1564 by Queen Mary who attended a deer drive there while at Blair Castle at Atholl.  Source for notated version: John Campbell (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg].  Printed sources: Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton), 1996; p. 28. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 26, p. 5.  Recorded sources: DMP 6-27-1, Doug MacPhee (appears as "Traditional Strathspey" in Program II).  See also listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index

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