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Miss Flora Macdonald
ID JSS0734
Title Miss Flora Macdonald
Document Reference LO 786.45 Sk3
Format 250 x 348 mm
Medium Printed Music sheet
Item Type Printed Collection
Subject Scottish Music, Strathspey
Item Description Skinner has written this strathspey in the bagpipe idiom - that is, in an attempt to reproduce the way a piper would play a tune, including the grace notes. He quickly realised that this was a style of writing that he was good at - his'pipe strathspeys and reels have always been popular.
Creator James Scott Skinner
Editor James Scott Skinner
Arranger James Scott Skinner
Publisher James Scott Skinner
Time Period 1870s-1880s
Associated Dates: Publication 1881
Location Aberdeen Central Library
Collection Name James Scott Skinner, Original Compositions
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