Annotation:Miss Ranken’s Reel

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MISS RANKEN’S REEL. AKA and see "Dunnechan." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA’B. The melody appears in the 4th collection of Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld, a volume dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. The first strain of "Miss Wright's Fancy" is cognate, but may have independently developed. The second strains are unrelated.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; No. 12.

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