Annotation:Strath Spray's Rant
X:1 T:Strath Spray's Rant M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:John Walsh - Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:D FA2 f/g/ afed|gfed BdBA|F A2 f/g/ afed|(e/f/g) (f/g/a) Te2 d2:| |:F2A2 FGAB|G/G/G G2 G>ABG|FA2 B ABAF|GdFd TE2D2:|
STRATH SPRAY'S RANT. AKA and see "Lord MacDonald (1)," "MacDonald's Rant" (Sir Alexander Macdonald's Reel). Scottish, Rant or Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Strath Spray's Rant" is from London music publisher John Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances, Book II (1743-4), and is the earliest reference yet found to the Scottish tune form "strathspey."
The tune was entered into musician and writing master David Young's McFarlane Manuscript (1741, No. 169) as "Sir Alexander Macdonald's Reel" (see "MacDonald's Rant").
