Annotation:Miss Menzies of Menzies (2)

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X:1 T:Miss Menzies of Menzies [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel C:William McLeish S:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb g | fB B/B/B {B/c/}d2 (cB) | GBFD ECCg | fB B/B/B {B/c/}d2 (cB) | GBFE DB,B,g | fB B/B/B {B/c/}d2 (cB) | GBFD ECCE | FDFB GEGe | dfce dB~B || g | fBdf Bfdg | fBdB (Ac)t(cg) | fBdf bfdf | ecAf dBBg | fBdf Bfdg | fBdB (Ac)(cB) | GEGB FDFe | dfce dB~B ||

MISS MENZIES OF MENZIES [2]. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composition credited to William McLeish by James Stewart-Robertson in The Athole Collection (1884). McLeish ("The Aberfeldy Paganini") was one of Stewart-Robertson's teachers. The tune was also played by Cape Breton fiddlers Little Jack MacDonald and Angus Chisholm (Cranford, 1997).

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 101, p. 42. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 292.

Recorded sources : - Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster – “My Roots are Showing” (2000). Rounder 7059, Alex Francis MacKay with Gordon MacLean – “Gaelic in the Bow” (2005).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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