Annotation:Leaving Lerwick Harbour
X:1 T:Leaving Lerwick Harbour C:Willie Hunter S:Matthew McGranaghan D:The Fiddle Music of Donegal, vol 3 N:This air was composed by Willie Hunter to recall the occasion N:of his sister Lorna's sailing out of Lerwick Harbour on the N:beginning of her journey of emigration to New Zealand Z:Juergen Gier <fiddler@jgfiddler.de> M:C L:1/8 K:D FE|D3F A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF3 E3D|E6FE| D3F A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|1AF3 E3D|D6:|2A2d2 c3d|d6de|: f3e d3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|A2f2 e2d2|1e6de| f3e d3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF2D {D}E3D|{C}D4 zAde:|2 e6AG|F3G A3D|{D}B3c d3c/B/|AF2D {D}E3D|D6|]
LEAVING LERWICK HARBOUR. Shetland, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. A modern air in the Scottish style composed in 1970 by Lerwick, Shetland, fiddler William "Willie" Hunter [1] (1933-1994), on the occasion of his sister Lorna's emigrating from Shetland to New Zealand. It is considered to be the finest composition of a fiddler who was considered to be the best of his generation, of whom it was said he could move an audience to tears through his sensitive rendering of slow airs.
