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Musical fingerprints of the North-East Scotland fiddle style

  • Paul Anderson

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Abstract

The fiddle style of the North-East region of Scotland, which broadly speaking covers the area between Dundee in the South and Morayshire in the north, is one of the most recognisable and spirited fiddle styles in Scotland.1 Defining what actually makes the North-East style ‘North-East’ in character and clearly different from other notable styles such as ‘Shetland’ and ‘Highland’ is actually rather difficult to do and I am fairly sure that if the question was asked of any old ‘North-East’ player, ‘What makes your fiddling North-East in character?’, they would probably struggle to articulate its characteristics, just as surely as they could listen to a dozen fiddlers from different areas and pick out the North-Easter quickly and easily.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCrossing Over
Subtitle of host publicationFiddle and Dance Studies from around the North Atlantic 3
EditorsIan Russell, Anna Kearney Guigné
Place of PublicationAberdeen
PublisherUniversity of Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute
Chapter14
Pages176-183
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)0-9545682-6-5
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameElphinstone Institute Occasional Publication
PublisherUniversity of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute
Number3

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