Annotation:Ca' the Wethers to the Hill

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 CA' THE WETHERS TO THE HILL. AKA and see "Glen Tilt Lodge," "Glentilt Lodge," "Glentilt." Scottish, Cape Breton; Strathspey. A Major. Standard or AEae tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Dunlay & Reich, Kerr). This double-tonic melody appears in Stewart-Robertson's Athole Collection as "Glentilt" (in reel time) and in Alexander McGlashan's A Collection of Reels (1786) as the "Duke of Athol's Forest Lodge Glen Tilt (The)."  Source for notated version: John Campbell (Cape Breton) [Dunlay and Reich].  Printed sources: Dunlay and Reich (Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music of Cape Breton), 1986; p. 30. Gow (Complete Repository), Book 4, 1817; p. 34. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 117, p. 14.  Recorded sources: JC 124, John Campbell- "Cape Breton Violin" (1979. Appears as "Traditional Strathspey"); DMP 6-27-1, Doug MacPhee- "Cape Breton Piano III" (1981. Appears as "Traditional Strathspey"). RDRC 850, Raymond Ellis - "Dedicated to Mom and Dad" (1994). SA93130, Donny LeBlanc - "Rosining Up the Bow"  See also the listing at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings index.

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