Annotation:Tigh n' dùin

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Colonel Charles Stewart (1823-1894) of Killan, antiquarian and amateur musician.

TIGH N' DÙIN. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by biography:James Stewart-Robertson, editor of The Athole Collection (1884). The Gaelic tigh an duin means 'the house of the hillock', but the tune title undoubtedly references Colonel Charles Stewart (1823-1894) J.P. "of Tigh'n Duin", Killin. Stewart was passionate about the Highlands and Highlanders and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The Celtic Monthly Magazine (vol. 2, 1894, p. 161) wrote as part of a remembrance:

As chief of the Perth Gaelic Society many will remember his stirring and eloquent addresses at the meetings at Perth, where he and his celebrated "Killin Gaelic Choir", of which he was the voluntary conductor, were deservedly popular. He was an accomplished musician, Highland music being one of his hobbies, and often spoke of the "mesmeric effect" of Gaelic music, which, he said, stirred his patriotism when nothing else could. His Killin Collection of Gaelic Songs is well known, and the interest and value of the book is enhanced by the historical and critical notes he affixed to each song.

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