Annotation:Glenlyon (2)

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 GLEN LYON/GLENLYON [2]. AKA - "Glenlyon's Reel." Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Cranford/Holland, Gow, McGlashan, Stewart-Robertson). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (p. 18).  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 102, p. 40. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; p. 37 (appears as "Glen Lyon's Reel"). McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 20. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 107. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 161.  Recorded sources: Jerry Holland - "Master Cape Breton Fiddler" (1982).

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