Annotation:Headlands (The)

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 HEADLANDS, THE. Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Shetland accordion player Ronnie Cooper (d. 1982), who wrote in the Scottish idiom.  Source for notated version: Eddy Arsenault (b. 1921, St. Chrysostom, East Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].  Printed sources: Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 2, 1988; p. 38. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 183.  Recorded sources: Greentrax CDTRAX 9009, Pat Shearer (Orkney Islands) - "Scottish Tradition 9: The Fiddler and his Art" (1993).

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