Sandy O'er the Lea sheet music

John Chambers

Message 28966 · 21 Dec 2001 03:01:55 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

Anselm writes:
| You can get a book by the late Nan Main called `The Ashley Album', which
| contains music for a bunch of Miscellany (actually `99 more SCD') dances
| including `Sandy o'er the Lea'. The suggested tune is `Kincorth Brig' by
| Adam Allardyce. There is a school of thought which considers the music
| in this book at least semi-official for the dances in question -- and
| indeed Kincorth Brig, a nice tune for sure, is what Muriel Johnstone
| chose as the lead tune for the single published recording of Sandy that
| exists -- but then of course Susie is just as free to pick `Auld Luckie'
| (another nice and popular tune) as Nan M. is to pick `Kincorth Brig'.
...
| (I'm sending you a copy of `Kincorth Brig' in private e-mail.)

Hey, if it's a nice tune, as you say, you should share it with
the rest of us, too ...

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