Annotation:Dyester Laddie

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DYESTER LADDIE. Scottish, Reel or Scots Measure. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is properly a Scots Measure, a type of country dance, played at a more stately pace than a reel.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), c. 1780; p. 32.

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