Crowhillock

 CROWHILLOCK. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Archibald Duff, who published his first Collection in 1794. Duff was born in Montrose, but later moved to Aberdeen to assume the music/dancing master practice of the famous Francis Peacock. Crowhillock is in Kindardineshire, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. Place-names of West Aberdeenshire (1899), by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon and Sir Charles Edward Troup, gives that Crow Hillock was "Part of Braeside Wood, on which are very old Scotch firs, where there has been a rookery 'for ages past' ". Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 2. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 119.

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