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X: 1 P: Larach Alasdair R: jig Z: 2005 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> S: Hanneke Cassel M: 6/8 L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/abc/Scotland/EspieMacNab2.abc K: Amix e \ |:"A"AAA a2e | "D"f2d "A"ecA | AAA a2e | "G"g2e dBG | "A"AAA a2e | "D"f2d "Em"efg | "A"agf "G"g2e | d2g dBG :| [|"A"AAe c2e | AAf ecA | AAe c2e | "G"BBg dBG | "A"AAe c2e | "D"d2e "G"BBg | "D"agf "G"g2e | d2g dBG || ||"A"AAe c2e | AAf ecA | AAe c2e | "G"BBg dBG | "A"AAA c2A | "D"d2e "A"g2e | "D"agf "G"g2e | d2g dBG |]



LARACH ALASDAIR. Scottish, Pipe Jig (6/8 time). AKA - "Sandy's Farm Steading." AKA and see "Old Wife of the Mill Dust (The)." A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune family composed of "My lame leg has kept me behind," "Lame Foot (The)" and "Trippers" is often represented as belonging to the same tune group as "Larach Alsadair" and "Old Wife of the Mill Dust (The)," of which there are harmonic and structural similarities. Yet, there are enough melodic differences to warrant separating the two groups.


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Printed sources : - William Gunn (The Caledonian Repository of Music), 1848; p. 9 (as "Làrach Alasdair"/Sandy's Farm Steading).

Recorded sources : - Greentrax Recordings CDTRAX073, Hamish Moore - "Steppin on the Bridge" (1994). Catherine Fraser and Duncan Smith - "Rhymes and Reasons" (2009).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1] See/hear the tune taught by Hanneke Cassel on youtube.com [2]



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