Annotation:Duncan MacQueen

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 DUNCAN MACQUEEN (Donnacha Mac Shuine). Scottish, Slow Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCD (Athole): AABCCDD (Fraser). "This perhaps, will be as popular a melody as any in this volume. The only words the editor ever heard to it were from his father,--from whom he first heard the second and third parts. The first and last parts have been long communicated by Mr. Gow, and as long admired,--and he is good enough to say it loses none of its character, but much the reverse, as now presented" (Fraser).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 87, pp. 32-33. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 57.  Recorded sources:

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