Da Cross Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Da Cross Reel", also known as "Cross Rig", "General Howe",<br> "The Lasses/Lassies of Stewarton" is a Shetland reel in D Mixolydian/G Major.<br> The parts are played AABCDAA (Brody) or AABB (Anderson).<br> According to Cooke the tune is a cousin to the Scottish tune<br> "Lasses of Stewarton"<br> though the Shetland versions are usually asymmetrical and the Scottish is not.<br> He says:<br> The tune was danced in Whalsay (the tune is also known on that island<br> as "General Howe") during this century, where I was told that to perform<br> it they had to do a 'double dancing turn' (i.e. dance for twice as long).<br> It was printed in Anderson's Ringing Strings (1983),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) and<br> Cooke's The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (1986).<br> It was recorded by Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1993).<br>
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