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HEADLANDS, THE. Shetland, March (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. Composed by Shetland accordion player Ronnie Cooper (d. 1982) of Lerwick, who wrote in the Scottish idiom. 'The Headlands' is the name of a house on Shetland, occupied by a retired airline pilot for whom Cooper wrote the march.


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Eddy Arsenault (b. 1921, St. Chrysostom, East Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].

Printed sources : - Martin (Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 2), 1988; p. 38. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 183.

Recorded sources : - Greentrax CDTRAX 9009, Pat Shearer (Orkney Islands) - "Scottish Tradition 9: The Fiddler and his Art" (1993).

See also listing at :
Hear the march played by Robert Bairnson at Tobar an Dualchais [1] [2] (preceeded by Tom Anderson's "Mangister Voe").



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