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Notation Note: The tunes below are recorded in what is called “abc notation.” They can easily be converted to standard musical notation via highlighting with your cursor starting at “X:1” through to the end of the abc’s, then “cutting-and-pasting” the highlighted notation into one of the many abc conversion programs available, or at concertina.net’s incredibly handy “ABC Convert-A-Matic” at

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**Please note that the abc’s in the Fiddler’s Companion work fine in most abc conversion programs. For example, I use abc2win and abcNavigator 2 with no problems whatsoever with direct cut-and-pasting. However, due to an anomaly of the html, pasting the abc’s into the concertina.net converter results in double-spacing. For concertina.net’s conversion program to work you must remove the spaces between all the lines of abc notation after pasting, so that they are single-spaced, with no intervening blank lines. This being done, the F/C abc’s will convert to standard notation nicely. Or, get a copy of abcNavigator 2 – its well worth it.   [AK]

 

 

 

MISS ABERCROMBY'S REEL (--OF BIRKENBOG). AKA and see "Hobb's Favorite," "Boston Rattlers'," "Colonel McBain's." Scottish, Reel. C Minor. Standard tuning. AAB (Athole, S. Johnson): AABB' (Marshall). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), first printed in his 1781 collection. The title refers to the daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby of Birkenbog near Portsoy, Banffshire, according to Moyra Cowie (1999). The Abercrombys were friends with the 4th Duke and Duchess of Gordon, and through this relationship would have had contact with Marshall, who was employed as the Duke’s Steward of the Household. Cowie points out that Banff was a favorite wintering place for the well-to-do of North-East Scotland, many of whom maintained town-homes there, spending the season visiting and socializing. Birkenbog was a farm house south of Cullen and was a well-developed and substantive property. A variant, set as a slow strathspey in the key of G Minor, appears in the William Sydney Mount manuscripts under the title “Mrs. Abercromby of Glupas Reel.” S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 30. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1781 Collection, pg. 5, and the 1822 Collection, pg. 23. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 273.

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T:Miss Abercromby

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Cmin

EDCD EFGE|FBEB DB,FD|EDCD EFGc|BGFD C/C/C C2:|

edcd efge|dcBc defd|edcd efge|dc=Bd c/c/c ~c2|edcd efge|

dcBc defd|gefd ecdB|GBFD C/C/C C2||

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T:Miss Ambercromby’s Reel

L:1/8

M:C|

S:Marshall – 1781 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Cmin

(EDC)(D EF)GE|FBFB DB,FD|(EDC)(D EF)Gc|B<G F>D C/C/C C2:|

(edc)(d ef)ge|(dcB)(c de)fd|1 (edc)(d ef)ge|d>cBd c/c/c c:|2

gefd ecdB|G<B F>D C/C/C C2||                       

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T:Mrs. Abercrombys of Glupas Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

N:”Slow”

S:William Sydney Mount (1807-1868) manuscripts, c. 1840’s?

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

F | G>DG>A B>cd>g | f<b d>B (c/B/A/G/ F>)A | G>DG>A B>cd>g |

f>c d/(c/B/A/) B>G G2 :| g>fd>f “tr”(g/f/g/a/) b>g | f>dc>d (f>g{f/g/}a>f |

(b>a)(a>g) (g>f)(f>d) | c3f (d/c/B/A/) (B<G) G2 | g>fd>f “tr”(g/f/g/a/) b>g |

f>dc>d (f>g){f/g/}(a>f) | (g>f)(e>d) (c>e)(d>c) | “tr”B/(A/b/c/) (d/c/B/A/) B<G G||

                       

MISS ADAM. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (pg. 33).

                       

MISS ADAM’S WALTZ.  English, Waltz. E Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABCAA. Goulding (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808), 1808; No. 4.

X:1

T:Miss Adam’s Waltz

M:3/8

L:1/8

B:Goulding – Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1808 (London)

Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock

Z:abcs’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Eb

B,|.E(G/F/).E|EBG|F{G}(F/E/F/A/)|GEB,|E(G/F/)E|EBG|F{G}(F/E/F/G/)|E2:|

e/d/|{d}cB e/d/|{d}cB e/d/|{d}c/B/c/B/c/d/|eB e/d/|{d}cB e/d/|{d}cB e/d/|c/B/A/G/F/E/|(B B/)A/G/F/|

E(G/F/).E|EBG|F{G}(F/E/F/A/)|GEB,|EG/F/E|EBG|F{G}F/E/F/G/|E2||

(b/g/)|(e/g/) B (b/g/)|e/g/ .B e/d/|{d}c/B/c/B/c/d/|eB (b/g/)|(e/g/) B (b/g/)|e/g/ B e/c/|d/f/d/B/c/=A/|B/c/B/_A/G/F/||

 

MISS ADIE.  Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard. AAB. Composed by Major Logan. Source for notated version: Hector MacAndrew [Martin]. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; pg. 130.

 

MISS ADMIRAL GORDON'S REEL/STRATHSPEY. AKA and see "Glasgow Flourish," "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw." Scottish, Slow Strathspey ("Slow when not danced"). A Major (most versions): D Major (O’Farrell). Standard. AB (most versions): AABB (O’Farrell): ABCD (McGlashan). One of the first composed and most famous tunes (c. 1775) by Scots fiddler William Marshall (1748‑1833) in honor of Margaret Gordon, daughter and only surviving child of Admiral William Gordon (d. 1769), Carmelite House, Banff; four other children died before adulthood. Margaret survived to marry Mr. Forbes-Seton of Aberdeen, and their daughter married Lord James Hay. Moyra Cowie (1999) points out that Banff was a social hub for the well-to-do of North East Scotland in the 18th century, many of whom retained town-houses there and who spent the season socializing.  Cowie believes Marshall would have met many through his position as the 4th Duke of Gordon’s Steward of the Household. The Admiral’s Carmelite house, which he built, survives today and has been converted into a small hotel.

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“Miss Admiral Gordon” was first published in Marshall's Strathspey Reels (1781, pg. 3).  As was not uncommon, it was republished afterwards by Joshua Campbell, although unattributed and renamed "Glasgow Flourish" after that city's motto (Alburger, 1983). Niel Gow wrote a tune called "Major Graham (of Inchbrakie)," which has a similar motif, and there have been accusations by some (e.g. John Glen) of plagerism; it appears derivative in any case (as is the Gows' "Sir John Whitefoord's Strathspey," both published in their 1784 First Collection). Its popularity is due in part to the fact that Robert Burns wrote one of his best songs to it which begins: "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw."  Burns' manuscript notes for the Scots Musical Museum contain the following ‑‑ "I have been told by somebody who had it from Marshall himself, that he took the idea of his three most celebrated pieces, 'The Marquis of Huntley's Reel,' 'His Farewell,' and 'Miss Admiral Gordon's Reel' from the old air, 'The German Lairdie'" (Emmerson, 1971). William Stenhouse maintains that Marshall fashioned the tune from the old melody of "The Lowlands of Holland" (by adding a second part), but John Glen (1891 & 1895) disputes this, saying that Stenhouse was in error and that "The Lowlands of Holland," especially as published by James Oswald in the Caledonian Pocket Companion, bears no resemblance. Nor does Glen credit Johnson (Scots Musical Museum) or Urbani (2nd Volume, 1794) who also published "The Lowlands of Holland" with originating "Miss Adimiral" for they were both published after Marshall published his tune. Burns wrote his lyric in honor of his bride‑to‑be, Jean Armour, while he was at Ellisland awaiting her arrival from Mauchline in Ayrshire, where he had first met her.

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O a' the airts the wind can blaw,

I dearly lo'e the west

For there the bonnie lassie lives,

The lass that I lo'e best.

Tho' wild woods grow an' rivers tow,

Wi' mony a hill between,

Baith day and nicht, my fancy's flicht,

Is ever wi' my Jean.

***

The melody has been used for other songs, including a Canadian folksong, “The Scarborough Settlers’ Lament” and a Scottish song “The Scottish Settlers’ Lament” (see Stan Rogers’ album “For the Family” and the Tannahill Weavers’ album “Land of Light,”, respectively.

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Source for notated version: Marshall's Strathspey Reels, 1781; pg. 3 [Johnson]. Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 64, pgs. 104‑105. Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 61, pg. 150. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 5. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 147. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 80, pg. 227. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1781 Collection, pg. 3. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 16. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; pg. 4. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 62, pg. 86. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion for the Union Pipes, vol. IV), 1810; pg. 78. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 163.

X:1

T:Miss Admiral Gordon’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:McGlashan – Reels       (c. 1786)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

E|A/A/A A<A A>E A<f|e<c B>A F2 F2|A/A/A A<A A>E A<f|

e>f a<c (e2 e>)f|e>f a<c e<cB<A|Bc d/c/B/A/ F2 F2|A/A/A A<A AE A<f|

e<c B>c A2 A||E|C>E A<E F<EA<E|c>e d/c/B/A/ F2 FE|C>E A<E F<EA<E|

c>d e/f/g/a/ (e2 e>)g|a>g f<e f<e d<c|B>c d/c/B/A/ F2 F2|A/A/A A<A A>E A<f|

e<c B>c A2 A||E|A/A/A A/A/A A<E A<f|f/e/d/c/ d/c/B/A/ F2 F2|

A/A/A A/A/A AE A<f|e>f a<c e2 e>f|e>fa>b e<cB<A|B/A/B/c/ d/c/B/A/ F2F2|

A/A/A A/A/A A<E A<f|e<c B>c A2A||E|C/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/ F/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/|

c/B/c/e/ d/c/B/A/ F2 F>E|C/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/ F/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/|

c/B/c/d/ e/f/g/a/ e2 df/g/|a<gf<e fed<c|B>c d/c/B/A/ F2F2|A/A/A A/A/A A>E A<f|

e<cBc A2 AE|C/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/ F/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/|c/B/c/e/ d/c/B/A/ F2 FE|

C/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/ F/E/D/E/ A/E/D/E/|c/B/c/d/ e/f/g/a/ e2 e>g|

(3agf (3gfe (3fed (3edc|(3dcB (3cBA F2 F2|A/A/A A<A AE a<f|e<cB<c A2A2||

                       

MISS AGNES ROSS'S REEL. AKA and see "Miss Ross(' Strathspey—of Elgin) [1]," "Lassie, Look Before You/Ye," "Look Before You." Scottish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), first published in his 1781 collection (pg. 12), but retitled by the Gows ("Look Before You") when they published the tune. It is a reel version of his "Miss Ross' Strathspey--Elgin." Miss Agnes has been identified as the daughter of James Ross, the secretary/factor at Gordon Castle, Fochabers, who was a colleague of Marshall’s in his position of Steward of the Household at the castle (Moyra Cowie, The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1781 Collection, pg. 12 and the 1822 Collection, pg 33 (appears as "Miss Ross' Strathspey ‑ Elgin"). McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; pg. 21.

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T:Miss Agnes Ross’s Reel

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L:1/8

R:Reel

S:McGlashan – Reels    (c. 1786)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

F|D>AF>A D>AF>A|E=cc>E E2 CE|D>AF>A D>AF>A|DddA F2 D:|

f|d>fd>f d>fA>f|=cdef g2 a/g/f/e/|d>fd>f dfAf|defg a2 b/a/g/f/|d>fd>f d>fA>f|

=cdef g2 a/g/f/e/|a>fg>e f>de>c|dABG F2 D||

                       

MISS ALICIA HEGGIE. AKA and see "Mrs. Walter Biggar."

                       

MISS ALMA BEAUDRY’S FANCY. Canadian, Hornpipe. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard. AB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; pg. 69.

                       

MISS AMBERCROMBIE. See “Miss Abercrombie.”

                       

MISS AMELIA ELIPHANT GASK. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard. AABB'. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 3; No. 25, pg. 5.

X:1

T:Miss Amelia Eliphant Gask

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 25

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

B | A<F F>D E>D B,2 | A<F F>A B>cd>B | A<F F>D E>DE>F | D>B,A,>B, (D2D) :|

|: f | (d/e/f/g/) a>g f<d d>f | a>df>d f<e e>f | (d/e/f/g/) a>g f<d d>f |1 d>B A<B d3 :|2 d/c/B/A/ B/d/c/ed/ d3 ||

                       

MISS AMELIA STEWART’S. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AAB. The ‘A’ part is very similar to the ‘B’ part of “Miss Amelia Eliphant Gask,” above. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 127, pg. 30.

 

MISS ANDERSON(‘S). Scottish (originally), Canadian; Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. C Major. Standard. AABB. The tune was recorded in the 1950's in a medley with “The Braes of Elachie” by Joe MacLean (Cape Breton). Source for notated version: fiddler Brenda Stubbert (b. 1959, Point Aconi, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) [Cranford]. Cranford (Brenda Subbert’s), 1994; No. 97, pg. 35. Rounder 7004, Joe Cormier ‑ "The Dances Down Home" (1977).

                       

MISS ANDY CAMPBELL'S. Scottish, Scottish Measure. F Major. Standard. AB. The piece was composed by Alexander McGlashan and appears in his "Collection of Scot Measures," of the late 18th century. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 322. McGlashan (Collection of Scots Measures), 177?; pg. 10.

X:1

T:Miss Andy Campbell’s Scots Measure

L:1/8

M:C

B:McGlashan – Collection of Scots Measures

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

c2|BAGF c3B|A2 c4 fg|a2 gf b3a|g2 G4 c2|BAGF f3d|gafg fedc|dcBA BGcB|A2 F4:|

cd/e/|fcAc f2c2|defc BAGF|GABc defg|e2 c4 de|f>gfe dcBA|bagf e2dc|dcBA BGcB| A2 F4:|

                       

MISS ANGUS, BOTRIPHNIE'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Botriphnie, Drummuir near Keith. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 10.

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T:Miss Angus, Bothriphnie’s Reel

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L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:B_

D|B,2 ~B2 Bdfd|cBAG FEDC|B,2 ~B2 Bdfd|c=Bc=E F2F:|

B|AFFB AFFd|eGcB AFFB|AFFB AFFd|eBcB A2 (GF)|

AFFB AFFd|eGcB AGFE|DEFG Abcd|egfA B2B||

                       

MISS ANN ÆMELIA STUART’S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AA’B. Composed by Duncan Mackintyre. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 30. 

X:1

T:Miss Ann Æmelia Stuart’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Gow – 1st Repository  (1799)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

F>GAF cFA>f|a/g/f/e/ f>F {FG}AGG>A|F>GAF cFA>f|1 a/g/f/e/ f>d c>A A<f:|2 A/g/f/e/ f>d c<A A>c||

f>gfd c<a f>c|d<f c>A AGG>c|(f/e/f/g/ a/g/f/e/) f>c d<f|c<f f>d c<a a>g|

fadf cfA>f|a/g/f/e/ f>F {FG} AGG>A|F>GAc defg|a/g/f/e/ {e}f>d c<AA<f||

X:2

T:Miss Ann Amelia Stewart's Strathspey

C:R. Petrie

S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/5/04

N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 5

L:1/8

M:C

R:Strathspey

K:F

f|F>GA<F c<FA>f|(a/g/f/e/ f)F AGGA  |F>GAF cFAf  |(a/g/f/e/ f)d cAA:|

c|f>gfc  c<ag<c|d>f d/c/B/A/  B(GGc)|f/e/f/g/ a/g/f/e/ f<cd>f|c<(ff>d) c<(aa>g) |

f<ad<f c<fA<f|(a/g/f/e/ f)F A<GG>A|F>GA>c d>ef>g|(a/g/f/e/ f)<d cAA|]

                       

MISS ANN AMELIA MURRAY. AKA – “Mrs. MacIntyre’s Strathspey.” Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AA'B. Composed by Duncan MacIntyre (b. 1765), who titled it “Mrs. MacIntyre’s Strathspey” in his collection. Although composer credits go to MacIntyre, the Gows were the first to publish the melody and did so under the title “Miss Ann Amelia Murray.” The melody was composed by expatriate Scots dancing master Duncan Macintyre of London, who spent some years in India (probably as a Master of Ceremonies to the Governor‑General's Court), and who died about 1806. Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 172, pg. 65. Gow (Repository), vol. 1, 1784. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 211.

See also listings at:

Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index 

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T:Miss Ann Amelia Murry

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

K:F

F>GA>F c>FA>f|a/g/f/e/ f>F A<G G>A|F>GA>F c>FA>f|1

a/g/f/e/ f>d c<AA<f:|2 a/g/f/e/ f>d c<A A<c||

f>gf>d c<a f>c|d>fc<A A>GG>c|f/e/f/g/ a/g/f/e/ f<c d>f|c<f f>d c<a a>g|

f<ad<f c<fA<f|a/g/f/e/ f<F A<G G>A|F>GA>c d>ef>g|a/g/f/e/ f>d c<AA<f||


                       

MISS ANN BISSET LOGIERAIT. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody appears in the 4th collection of Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld, a volume dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. Logierait was a village and parish in north central Perthshire, on the banks of the River Tay. The name means ‘little hollow below the castle’ and refers to an Iron Age mound, once a fortified place. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pg. 9.

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T:Miss Ann Bisset (of) Logierait

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

e | gage abaf | gage fgab | gage abaf | gedB e/e/e e :|

|: f | gage dBGB | ABcd edef | gage dBGB | cABG E/E/E E :|

 

MISS ANN CAMERON'S JIG--BALVENIE. Scottish, Jig (9/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). A Scottish fiddler and composer, Marshall is most famous for his many fine strathspeys. Marshall worked for much of his life for the Duke of Gordon as the Steward of his Household, and it is fortunate that the Duke was an enthusiastic supporter and patron of Marshall’s music. Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) identifies Miss Ann as Dr. Grigor of Nairn’s maiden aunt, who lived at Balvenie Farm in lower Glen Fiddich. Marshall wrote several tunes for members of the family.  Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 9.

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T:Miss Ann Cameron’s Jig – Balvenie

M:9/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

B2b f2d cAF|B2b f2d fga|b2B f2d cAF|G2B (AB/c/)A B3:|

FdB e2d cAF|fdB e2d efg|fga bfd cAF|G2B (AB/c/)A B3|

FdB e2d cAF|fdB e2d efg|fga bfd cAF|G2B (AB/c/)A B3||

                       

MISS ANN CAMPBELL. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB’. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 181, pg. 72. Cameron, (The Trip to Windsor Collection), 1994.

                       

MISS ANN CARNEGIE. Scottish, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune originally appeared in Achibald Duff’s 1811 collection. Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 19, pg. 7. Rounder CD 11661-7033-2, Natalie MacMaster – “My Roots are Showing” (2000).

                       

MISS ANN FORBES.  Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning. AABBCCDD. Jones [Ed.] (Complete Tutor Violin), c. 1815; pg. 3.

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T:Miss Ann Forbes' Reel.

R:reel

M:C

L:1/8

B:Complete Tutor Violin  (c. 1815)

Z:Dr. Evan Jones, 2005

K:A

U:T=!trill!

N:  2nd system bar 2 g replaced with a

e |:: A/A/A (cA) (Bcdf) | A/A/A (ec) AAec | (de/f/) (cd/e/) Bcdf | edTcB AAce :||: A/A/A (ac) Bcdf |

A/A/A (ac) A/A/A (ac) | (a/g/f/e/) (ac) Bcdf | edTcB AAce :||: Aece Bcdf | Aece Aece | (d/e/f) (c/d/e) Bcdf |

edTcB AAce :||: A/A/A (ac) Bcdf | A/A/A (ac) AAae | (a/g/f/e/) (ac) Bcdf | edcTB AAce :|]

 

MISS ANN MACCORMACK. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald - “Classic Cuts” (reissue of Celtic Records CX 17.

           

MISS ANN MOIR'S BIRTHDAY. Scottish, Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Charles Duff and found in the Charles Duff Collection (c. 1790). Sources for notated versions: John Campbell (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) [Dunlay and Reich]; Natalie MacMaster (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg]. Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; pg. 91. Dunlay and Reich (Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music from Cape Breton), 1986; pg. 59. Appears in William Morrison Collection. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Atlantica 04 50222, NMAS 1972, Natalie MacMaster - "Fit as a Fiddle" (1993). DMP6‑27‑1, Doug MacPhee‑ "Cape Breton Piano III" (1981. Appears as "A Duncan MacQuarrie Strathspey"). JC 127, John Campbell‑ "Cape Breton Violinist" (1983. Appears as "Traditional Strathspey"). SA93130, Donny LeBlanc - “Rosining Up the Bow” (1993).

                       

MISS ANN MONRO. Scottish, Jig. D B Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody was composed by Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 50.

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T:Miss Ann Munro

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bmin

F|B3f3|edc dcB|Acd edc|aed cBA|B3 fgf|edc dcB|efd edc|dBB B2:|

c|dfB dbB|dcB fdB|ceA daA|cBA edc|dfB dbB|dcB fdB|efd edc|dBB B2c|

dfB dbB|dfB dbB|ceA caA|deA caA|BdB cec|dfd ege|fgf edc|dBB B2||

                       

MISS ANN STEWART [1]. AKA – “Miss Ann Stewart East Craig’s Reel.” Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB (Surenne): AAB (Skye). East Craigs is north west of Edinburgh. Anne Stewart was the daughter of John Stewart of East Craigs. Ann(e) was a celebrated Endinburgh beauty who married an Edinburgh surgeon an apothecary named Forrest Dewar (d. 1816) in January, 1789, in the process breaking the heart (the story goes) of another suitor, Alexander Cunningham. Cunningham was a friend of poet Robert Burns, who knew how much in love he was with Miss Stewart, whom Burns once described as “an amiable and accomplished young lady with whom I fancy I have the honor of being a little acquainted.” Burns had encouraged Cunningham to marry her, penning a verse in 1788 called “To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh,” which ended:

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Sweet Anna has an air—a grace,

Divine, magnetic, touching;

She talks, she charms—but who can trace

The process of bewitching?

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The poet was less charitable after she spurned his friend, declaring the she had “prostituted her character” and married beneath her. In a letter to Cunningham from 1789, Burns consoled: “…I am certain that a disappointment in the tender passion must, to you, be a ver serious matter…to your scanty tribe of mankind, whose souls bear, on the richest materials, the most elegant impress of the Great Creator, Love enters deeply into their existence, and is entwined with their very thread of life.” It has been suggested that Burns’ poem “She’s Fair and Fause” was inspired by his friend’s loss. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; pg. 26 (3rd ed.). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 147. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 202. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 110.

X:1

T:Miss Ann Stewart [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – The Skye Collection  (1887)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

A|DGG>A Bcdf|AFcA FGAc|BAGA Bcdf|AFc>A BGG:|

A|Bcde fdcB|AFcF dFcF|Bcde fdcB|AFc>A BGGA|

Bfdf BfdB|FcAc FcAF|Bfdf BfdB|FAc>A BGG||

X:2

T:Miss Ann Stewart, East Craigs  [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

F|:DGGA Bcdf|AFcA FGAc|BAGA Bcdf|AfcA BGGA:|

|:Bcd=e fdcB|AFcF dFcF|Bcd=e fdcB|AfcA BGGA:|

|:Bfdf Bfdf|FcAc FcAc|Bfdf Bfdf|AFcA BGGA:|

 


MISS ANN STEWART--EAST CRAIGS [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. ABB'. See note for “Miss Ann Stewart—East Craigs [1].” Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; pg. 26 (3rd ed.). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 189.

X:1

T:Miss Ann Stewart – East Craigs [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Gow – 2nd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., pg. 26  (orig. 1788)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

B|G>gg>f “tr”g>a({g/a/}b>)g|f>dc>d B>FF>B|G>gg>f g>a({g/a/}b>)g|f>dc>d “tr”B>GG>A|

G>g”tr”g>f g>a({g/a/}b>)g|f>d cf Af FA|G>gg>f “tr”g>a({g/a/}b>)g|(g/<f)(e/>d/) “tr”c>d B>GG||

A|”tr”(B>c)df “tr”(c>d)eg|(B/A/B/c/) (B/c/d/c/) B>FF>A|”tr”(B>c)df “tr”c>d)eg|g/<f/e/<d/ “tr”c>d B>GGA|

“tr”(B>c)df “tr”(c>d)eg|(B/A/B/c/) (B/c/d/c/) B>FF>A|(B/A/B/).c/ d>f (c/B/c/).d/ e>g|(g/<f/)(e/<d/) (e/<d/)(c/<d/) B>GG||

 

MISS ANN STEWART [3]. Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in William Marshall's 1781 collection (pg. 4). Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 16.

X:1

T:Miss Ann Stewart

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1   (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

F<D B>D F<D B,>D|G<B F>D C/C/C C2|F<D B>D FBeg|d>B c>d B/B/B B2:|

Bfdf Bgeg|f<d c>B G/G/G G2|BFDB FBeg|d>B c<d B/B/B B2|

Bfdf Bgeg|f<d c>B G/G/G G2|(B>c) (d>B) (e>c) (f>d)|(c>B c<)d B/B/B B2||

           

MISS ANNE CARRE. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 57) and Robert MacIntosh's 1783 collection (pg. 35).

                       

MISS ANNE GORDON. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). A Scottish fiddler and composer, Marshall is most famous for his many fine strathspeys. Marshall worked for much of his life for the Duke of Gordon as the Steward of his Household, and it is fortunate that the Duke was an enthusiastic supporter and patron of Marshall’s music. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition; 1845 Collection, pg. 32.

X:1

T:Miss Anne Gordon

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Marshall – 1845 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

A|F/F/F (F>d) c<FA<f|F/F/F (F>G) AG(D>E)|F/F/F (F>d) c<FA<f|f<d c>A A>G D:|

e|f<cf<a c<fA<a|f<c f>a ~g2 (d>e)|f<cf<a c>fa>g|f<A A/A/A G2 D e|f<cf<a c<fAa|

f<c f>a ~g2 (d>e)|f>ag>b a<f g>e|f<A A/A/A A>G D||

                       

MISS ANNE MACNAMARA.  Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton.  Composed by Dan R. MacDonald. WMT002, Wendy MacIsaac – “That’s What You Get” (1998?).

                       

MISS ANNIE LIVINGSTON. AKA and see “Leslie,” “Miss Leslie of St. Andrews.” Scottish, Reel. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the melody in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 47).

                       

MISS ANNIE MACKINNON. Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AAB. "Pipe tune, Skye style." Composed by Keith N. MacDonald (compiler of the Skye Collection). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 181.

X:1

T:Miss Annie MacKinnon

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Skye Collection  (1887)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amix

e|AAeA cAeA|(f<g) dB GBdG|AAeA cAeA|{f}g2 dB A<A A:|

AAce aeef|g2 dB GBdB|AAeA aeef|g2 (fd) e2 Ae|AAeA aeef|

g2 dB GBdB|AAcA eAcA|BGdB A2A2||

                       

MISS ANNIE WATSON’S REEL.  Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Abraham Macintosh, appearing in his Thirty New Strathspey Reels Etc. (Edinburgh, c. 1792). Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Annie Watson’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Macintosh – Thirty New Strathspey Reels (c. 1792)

K:G

(d/c/)|BGdg fagd|BGdB cAA(d/c/)|BGdg fagB|AGAB G/G/G G:||

(g/a/)|bgdb afda|geBg f^dBf|ecAe dBGD|EcBA BGG(g/a/)|

bgdb afda|gfge f^dBf|egdg cgBg|AGAB G/G/G G||

 

MISS ANNY STEWART, BOHALLY. Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune was composed by Malcolm McDonald and appears in his Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol, 1, 1891; pg. 26. MacDonald (Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 11.

X:1

T:Miss Anny Stewart, Bohally’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8
R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

c | A2”tr”e2 cAec | dB=gd BdGB | A2”tr”e2 cAeA | dB=gB A/A/A A :|

e | (ag)a(e c)dec | (=gf)g(d B)dBG | (ag)a(e c)dec | dB=gB A/A/A A2 |

agae cecA | =gfgd BdBG | cedf eace | dB=gB A/A/A A ||

                       

MISS AUBONE SURTEES’ FAVOURITE.  AKA and see “Blaydon Flats.” Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Scottish fiddler and composer Abraham Mackintosh (b. 1769).

X:1

T:Miss Aubone Surtees’ Favourite

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

C:Abraham Mackintosh (b. 1769)

K:D

A,|D2FD CDB,D|A,DFA G2FE|DAFd Afda|gefd c2BA|

d2df ecaA|B2dB Adfa|gbfa gbag|fedc d3||

g|fdaf ecBA|dBfd cAGF|BGdB Adfa|gefd c2BA|

d2df ecAc|B2dB AdFA|G2BG FAGB|AGFE D3||

 

MISS AUSTIN. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Archibald Allan of Forfar (1794-1831), described in J. Scott Skinner's "Harp and Claymore" collection as "one of the very best players and composers of his day." His most famous composition is "The Dean Brig o' Edinburgh." Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1986; pg. 40. Stewart-Roberson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 302.

X:1

T:Miss Austin

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection   (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

^f|g<d d>c B>AG>A|B>c dc/B/ A2 D>^f|g<d d>c B>cd>c|BA/G/ AG/^F G2 G,:|

A|B>df>b A>cf>a|B>c dc/B/ A2 D>A|B>df>b A>cf>a|BA/G/ AG/^F/ G2 G,>A|

B>df>b A>cf>a|B>c e/d/c/B/ A2 D^f|ga/b/ a>g ^fg/a/ d>c|BA/G/ AG/^F/ G2 G,||

                       

MISS AVRIL’S DELIGHT.  English, Country Dance Tune (3/2 time). D Minor. Standard tuning. AB. Irregular timing in the first part. A composition of English teacher, composer, choreographer and collector Pat Shaw. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 85.

 

MISS BABIE GRAY'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet. Composed by Daniel (sometimes Donald) Dow and appearing first in James Gillespie's MS (1768) as an untitled minuet. Five years later it appeared in his 1773 collection having acquired a patron's title.

                       

MISS BABY MONTGOMERY. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 53).

                       

MISS BACON'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Miss Baker's," "Mrs. Baker's Hornpipe."

           

MISS BAIN’S FANCY. Irish (?), Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AB (Miller & Perron): AAB (O’Neill). Sources for notated versions: copied from James Aird’s Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782-97) [O’Neill]; Kerry fiddler Paddy Cronin, long a resident of Boston, Massachusetts [Miller & Perron]. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 1977; vol. 3, No. 26. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; pg. 89. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 211.

X:1

T:Miss Bain's Fancy

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Aird's Selections 1782-97

R:Reel

K:G

B|E/2E/2E EF GABd|D/2D/2D AD FDAF|E/2E/2E EF GABG|BEED E2-E:|

e/2f/2|gef^d e2 Be|dBAd FDAF|efed B^def|geB^d eBef|

gefd e2 Be|fcdA FDAf|gdeB dGAB|GEE^D E2-E||

                                   

MISS BAIN’S REEL. Irish (?), Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. “Miss Bain’s Reel” was first printed in James Aird’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (Glasgow, 1797, pg. 55). The melody also appears in the music manuscript copybook of fiddler John Burks, dated 1821. Unfortunately, nothing is known of Burks, although he may have been from the north of England. Source for notated version: copied from James Aird’s Selections [O’Neill]. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 210.

X:1

T:Miss Bain's Reel

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Aird's Selections 1782-97

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Reel

K:D

B|AFDF AdcB|dfeg e/2e/2e e2|AFDF AdcA|BdAF D/2D/2D D:|

f/2g/2|afdf abaf|geaf e/2e/2e e/2f/2g|afdf abaf|geaf d/2d/2d df/2g/2|

afdf abaf|geaf e/2e/2e eg|fdec dBAF|GBAF D/2D/2D D||

                       


MISS BAIRD OF NEWBYTH. AKA and see "Lady Baird [1]," "Mrs Baird of New Byth [1]." Scottish, Strathspey. D Mixolydian (Huntington): G Major (Glen). Standard tuning. AABB. Composed by Niel Gow (1727-1806). Gow (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 172.  Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. 14.

X:1

T:Miss Bairds of New Bythe Straspey (sic)

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Huntington – William Litten’s Fiddle Tunes 1800-1802 (1977)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

B | AD B/A/G/F/ | EC CE | AD B/A/G/F/ | AD B/A/G/F/ | BG AF | EC CE |

AD AG/F/ | AD D :: g | f<d Ad | ec c>e | f<d Ad | f>d Ad | A>d fd | ec c>e |

fd A>d | FD Dg | f<d Ad | ec c>e | fd A>d | f>d ec | dA cF | EC CE | AD AG/F/ | AD D :|

                       

MISS BAIRD OF SAUGHTON HALL [1]. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning. AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by Mrs. Robertson of Ladykirk (for whom see John Gow’s strathspey “Mrs. Roberston of Ladykirk’s Favorite”). Miss Baird of Saughton Hall was herself a composer. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 276. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; pg. 34. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 196, pg. 22 (appears as "Miss Baird of Saughton"). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 228. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 102.

X:1

T:Miss Baird of Saughton Hall [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

cdcf  cAAB|cAdB ~c2 cd|cfag fcAF|GABc d2 df:|

cfAB cAAB|cfAB ~c2cd|cfAB cfAF|GABc d2df|

cfAB cAAB|cfAB ~c2 cf/g/|afge fcAF|GABc d2d2||

 

MISS BAIRD OF SAUGHTONHALL [2]. AKA – “Miss Baird of Saughtonhall’s Hornpipe.” Scottish, Hornpipe (6/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. An ‘old hornpipe’ composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). Baird is an old Scottish family that held extensive lands in Lanarkshire in the 1200’s, having been originally granted to a member of William I’s entourage who saved his life from a wild boar. In the early 14th century Robert the Bruce granted the Barony of Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, to a Robert Baird. The family prospered and spred, one branch locating to Auchmeddan in Aberdeenshire, from which came the Bairds of Newbyth and Saughtonhall in East Lothian. During Nathaniel Gow’s time a General Sir David Baird (1757-1829) from Newbyth served in India, where he was one of only two survivors of the 73rd Highland Regiment at a British defeat at Madras in 1780; Miss Baird of Saughtonhall may have been a relative. In the 1780’s Saughtonhall was at the time a “good old mansion house,” three miles from Edinburgh, the home of Lady Maxwell. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Baird inherited Saughtonhall when he succeeded to the title 6th Baronet Baird, Saughtonhall, in 1771. The “Miss Baird” of the title as one of three daughters born to James Baird and his wife Henrietta (died 1817, Inveresk House), the third daughter of Wynne Johnston of Hilton. Henrietta, who may have composed tunes herself (as did her sister, for whom see Miss Johnston of Hilton’s Fancy), and was one of the more prominent women of the Scottish Enlightenment. James and Henrietta married in 1781. Their daughters were Margaret Mary (died at Inveresk House, unmarried in 1818), Henrietta Warrander Cecilia (married John Wauchope), and Alicia Sophia (Alicia died, unmarried, at Saughtonhall in 1821). Miss Baird also composed a reel, “The Eighth of December.” In 1841 records indicatie a railway line had been routed through the estate “to the detriment of the unity of the parcel.” There was a famous asylum for the insane at Saughtonhall in the 19th century. By the early 20th century the estate had disappeared and was developed for housing and community structures.

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Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 580. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pg. 26 (3rd ed.).

X:1

T:Miss Baird of Saughtonhall's Hornpipe

C:Nathaniel Gow

B:The Beauties of Niel Gow, Pt.2

Z:Nigel Gatherer

M:3/2

L:1/8

K:A

E2 A2 c2 A2 G2 A2|E2 A2 c2 A2 e4|f3 g a2 A2 G2 B2|F2 B2 AGFE A4:|

A2 C2 A2 C2 D2 C2|A2 C2 E2 C2 A4|f3 g a2 A2 G2 B2|F2 B2 AGFE A4|

A2 C2 A2 C2 D2 C2|A2 C2 E2 C2 A4|fgae dcBA G2 B2|F2 B2 AGFE A4|]

X:2

T:Miss Baird of Saughtonhall’s Hornpipe

M:6/4

L:1/8

R:”Old” Hornpipe

C:Nathaniel Gow

B:Gow – Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., pg. 26  (orig. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

(E2A2c2).A2.G2.B2|(e2A2c2).A2 e4|”tr”f3ga2A2G2B2|”tr”F2B2 (AG)FE A4:||

(Ac2a2) c2d2B2|(A2c2e2).c2a4|”tr”f3ga2 A2G2B2|”tr”F2B2 (AG)FE A4|

(A2c2a2).c2.f2.B2|(A2c2e2)c2a4|(fga).e dcBA G2B2|”tr”F2B2 (AG)FE A4||

                       

MISS BAIRDS OF NEW BYTHE STRASPEY. AKA and see "Miss Baird of Newbyth."

                       

MISS BAKER'S. AKA and see “Admiral Nelson,” "Mrs. Baker's Hornpipe," "Miss Bacon's Hornpipe,” “Miss Barker’s Hornpipe." Irish, English, Scottish; Hornpipe. G Major (Hardings): F Major (most versions). Standard tuning. AABB. A stage hornpipe tune which attained some popularity, composed for Miss/Mrs. Baker who performed a solo character dance in the late 18th century when the "sailor's hornpipe" type of dance became fashionable entertainment. Frank Kidson records in his entry on hornpipes in Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians: “About 1760 the hornpipe underwent a radical change, for it was turned into common time and was altered in character. Miss Anne Catley, Mrs. Baker, Nancy Dawson, and other stage dancers, introduced it into the theatre, and they have given their names to hornpipes which are even now popular.” The Thespian Dictionary: or, Dramatic Biography of the 18th Century (1802) records that Miss Baker was “an eminent dancer belonging to Drury Lane Theatre,” who married in 1767 dramatist and actor Thomas King.

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Alexander McGlashan prints the tune in his Collection of Scots Measures (c. 1780, pg. 37) under the title “A Hornpipe Danc’d by Aldridge,” a reference to Irish-born Robert Aldridge, a stage dancer and pantomimist popular in the 1760’s and 1770’s. It is probably the "Miss Baker's Hornpipe" that is one of the "missing tunes" in William Vickers' 1770 Northumbrian dance tune manuscript. Kidson (1890) finds it first printed in Straight & Skillern’s Country Dances for 1772 , while in Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Collection of 120 Hornpipes (c. 1775) it is entitled “Mrs. Baker’s Hornpipe.” The Thompson’s also published it in their Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (1773), and later in their instrumental tutors. James Aird prints it in the third volume of his Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1788). It is in Straight and Skillern’s Two Hundred & Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1775) as well. “Miss Baker’s” can be found in the numerous English musician’s manuscripts, including William Mittel (New Romney, Kent, 1799, where it appears twice), William Higgott (Cumbria?, c. 1800), the Tiller manuscript, J. Moore (Tyneside, 1841), Joshua Jackson (Harrogate, north Yorkshire, 1798), John Fife (Perth, Scotland, c. 1780), William Tildesley (Swinton, Lancashire, c. 1860), Thomas Watts (Peak Forest, Derbyshire, late 18th century), William Clarke (Feltwell, Norfolk, 1858), William Clarke (Lincoln, 1770), and G. Huddeswell (Leeds, west Yorkshire). The John Clare manuscript (Helpstone, Northants, c. 1820) includes it under the slightly distorted title “Bacon’s Hornpipe.” Bride’s Favourite Collection of 200 Country Dances, Cotillons and Allemands (1776) contains an unrelated tune called “Mrs. Baker’s Fancy.” Canadian versions (Cape Breton, PEI) appear under the title “Miss Barker’s,” the title by which the tune can be found in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection/Cole’s 1000, and presumably Canadian versions derive from those printed sources. As “Admiral Nelson” the melody is attributed to Perthshire fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807) by Hunter. In the Swedish tradition of Engleska playing, the melody is called “Skuggespelet.”

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Callaghan (Hardcore English), 2007; pg. 21. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 99 (appears as “Miss Barker’s Hornpipe”). Cranford (Jerry Holland’s), 1995; No. 147, pg. 42 (mislabelled as “The Rocket”). Emmerson (Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String), 1971; No. 86, pg. 163. Hardings All‑Round Collection, 1905; No. 45, pg. 13. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; pg. 50. Kidson (Old English Country Dances), 1890; pg. 24. Offord (John of the Greeny Cheshire Way), 1985; pg. 90. O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915/1987; No. 369, pg. 178. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 118 (appears as “Miss Barker’s Hornpipe”). Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 134 (appears as “Miss Barker’s Hornpipe”). Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3) , 1773; No. 68. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1816; pg. 140. EFDSSCD13, Pheonix  – “Hardcore English” (2007. Various artists). Firebird FBR01, Phoenix – “After the Fire.”

X:1

T:Miss Baker’s Hornpipe

T:Admiral Nelson

M:C

L:1/8

S:McGlashan -  Collection of Scots Measures

N:Appears as: “A Hornpipe Danc’d by Aldridge’s.”

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

cB|A2 (F2 F)AGF|EG (B2 B)dcB|Acde fcdB|A2 (F2 F2):|

|:(3cde|fcAc fagf|gece gbag|afge fdgf|e2 c4 fe|dcBA B2 gf|

edcB A2 (3cde|fcdB cABG|A2 F4:|

X: 2
T:Miss Baker's Hornpipe. WM015
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:200
S:Wm.Mittell,1799
R:Hornpipe
O:England
A:Kent
Z:C.G.P.
K:F
c-B|A2F2FAGF|EFGAB2AG|Acde fcdB|A2F2F2:|
|:(3cde|fcAc fagf|gece gbag|afge fdgf|e2c2c2f-e|
d-cB-AB2b-a|g-fe-dc2BA|Bcde fcdB|A2F2F2:|]

X:3

T:Miss Barker’s

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Hornpipe

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

c/B/ | .A.F F/A/G/F/ | E/G/B B/d/c/B/ | A/c/d/e/ f/c/d/B/ | .A.G .Gc/B/ | .G.F F/A/G/F/ |

E/G/B B/d/c/B/ | A/c/d/e/ f/c/d/B/ | AFF :: c | f/c/A/c/ f/a/g/f/ | g/e/c/e/ g/b/a/g/ |

a/f/g/e/ f/d/g/f/ | .e.c .cf/e/ | d/c/B/A/ Bb/a/ | g/f/e/d/ cB/A/ | B/c/d/e/ f/c/d/B/ | AFF :|

X:4

T:Miss Baker

M:C

L:1/8

B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773)

Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock, 2007

Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

cB|A2 (F2 F)AGF|EG (B2 B)dcB|Acde fcdB|A2 (F2F2)::(3cde|fcAc fagf|gece gbag|
afge|fdgf|e2 (c2 c2) fc|(3def (3ABc B2 ba|gfed (cc) BA|(3Bcd (3EFG FdcB|A2F2F2:||

 

MISS BALFOUR. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 71).

 

MISS BARBARA CUNNINGHAM. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Robert Macintosh. Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 35. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Barbara Cunningham

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

B|G>g d<B G<dB<G|EF/G/ A>G F<D D>B|G>g d<B G<dB<G|ec B/A/G/F/ [B,2G2] G,:|

g/a/|b<gd<g e<gd<B|c<aB<g aAAg/a/|b<ge<g e<gd<B|e<ad<f g2 Gg/a/|b<ga<f g<ef<d|

e<cd<B a<A A>B|G>D B<G d<Bg<c|B<d D>F [B,2G2] G,||

 

MISS BARBARA STEWART--WEST PARK. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Composed for a daughter of General Stewart, West Park, Elgin. The dwelling of West Park became the West Park Hotel for a time (Moyra Cowie, The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection, pg. 13.

X:1

T:Miss Barbara Stewart—West Park

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Marshall – 1845 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

c2 (G>c) E<C G2|d2 (A>d) F<D A2|c2 (G>c) E<C G>E|D<(d d>)e (f>e)(d>c)|

c2 (G>c) E<C G2|d2 (A>d) F<D A2|c2 (G>c) E<C G>E|D<(d d>)e (f>e)(d>c)||

c<ge<g cg e2|f<a d>e f>ga>f|e<c g>e (a>g)(f>e)|d<B G>B ~c2c2|

e<gc<g e>gc>e|f<a d>e f>ga>f|e>fg>e a<f d>c|B<G A>B ~c2c2||

 

MISS BARBARA STEWART'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), first published in his 1781 (pg. 8). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1781 Collection, pg. 8.

X:1

T:Miss Barbara Stewart’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Marshall – 1781 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

(g|fe)de (d/c/B/c/) d2|F(DD)F A3 (a|^gf)eg f^d e2|^G(EE)G B3 (g|

fe)de (d/c/B/c/) d2|F(DD)F A3F|GBAc Be^df|e(EE)^G B3||(d|

A)FDF dFDF|AFDF A3 (d|B)^GEG eGEG|B^GEG B3 (d|

A)FDF dFDF|AFDF A3 (^g|a)fge f^d e2|(GE)E^G B3||


 

MISS BARKER'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see “Miss Baker’s.”

 

MISS BARRETT'S WALTZ. English, Country Dance Tune (3/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABBCC. The tune dates to 1799. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986.

 

MISS BARSTOW. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Robert Mackintosh, appearing in his A Third Book of Sixty-Eight New Reels and Strathspeys: Also above forty old Famous Reels (Edinburgh, 1796). Source for notated version: Robert Mackintosh’s 1796 collection [S. Johnson]. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 202. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 19. Lismore LILP 5099, Ron Gonnella – “Scottish Fiddle Master” (1980).

X:1

T:Miss Barstow’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Mackintosh – Third Book of Sixty Eight New Reels and Strathspeys (1796)

K:G

D|G2 (DG) B,G,DB,|[A,E](AAG) FDEF|G2 DG EGce|d(cBA) BGG:||

d|”tr”(gfgd) BGdB|Aaag fdef|”tr”(gfg)d BGdB|cedc BGGf|

“tr”(gfgd) BGdB|A(aag) fdef|gbag fdgc|BdAc BGG||

 

MISS BARTLET. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody was composed by J. MacGlashan. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 22.

X:1

T:Miss Bartlet

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2 (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

B|AFDF DFCF|AFDF BGGB|AFDF D/E/F CB|A/B/c GB AFF:|

~B|Acfa bagf|ecfA BGGB|Acfa bagb|afce fFFB|Acfa bagf|

ecfA BGGB|A/B/c GB AFEF|DdcB AFF||

 

MISS BAYNE’S REEL.  English, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 106 (appears as “Ram Meadow”, the name of a country dance by Ron Coxall set to the tune).

 

MISS BEDLINGTON’S FANCY.  English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. A dance and tune composed by English collector, composer, choreographer, and teacher Pat Shaw. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; pg. 86.

 

MISS BELL KENNEDY. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in John Riddell's 1782 collection (pg. 58).

 

MISS BENNET’S JIG. Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB.

X:1
T:Miss Bennet's Jig
D:Jim Johnstone, Sound of
Z:Nigel Gatherer
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:D
A | d2A FAF  |  D2D D2F | G2F E2D | DCB, A,2
A | d2A FAF  |  D2D D2A | B2G E2C | D3   D2  :|
z | A2A AB=c | =cBB B3  | B2B Bcd | dcc  c2
A | d2A f2d  |  a2f d2A | B2G E2C | D3   D2  :|]

 

MISS BETSY ROBERTSON. AKA and see “Kitty Clyde’s,” “Kitty Robertson.” Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB (Athole, Jones, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by Robert MacIntosh. Very similar to “Captain Byng.” Jones [Ed.] (Complete Tutor Violin), c. 1815; pg. 6. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 121, pg. 15. MacDonald ("The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 100. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 62. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 166.

X:1

T:Miss Betsey Robertson

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

c | d3g BGdB | Aaag fdef | gfgd BcdB | cAdc BGG :|

c | BGDG EGDG | ABcB cedc | BGEG EGce | dBcA BGGc |

BGDG EGDG | ABcB cedc | Bdgd ceag | fdef gGG ||

X:2

T:Miss Betsy Robertson's Reel.

R:reel

M:C|

L:1/8

B:Complete Tutor Violin  (c. 1815)

Z:Dr. Evan Jones, 2005

K:G

N: See http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MISSA_MISSF.htm

B | d3g BGdB | Aaag fdef | gfgd ecdB | cA (d/c/B/A/)  BGG :||

c | (BA/G/) (DG) EGDG | ABcB cedc | (B/A/G) (DG) EGce | dBAc BGGd |

(BA/G/) (DG) EGDG | ABcB cedc | BgdB cdeg | fadf gGG ||

 

MISS BETTY ANN GORDON. Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AABB. Dunlay & Greenberg (1996) say the origins of the tune are obscure. It was learned by Buddy MacMaster from Dan R. MacDonald, whose father (John ‘the Carpenter’ MacDonald, d. 1930) played the tune, and suggest that the elder MacDonald picked it up while working in the woods in Pictou County. Winston Fitzgerald wrote out the music for Sandy macIntyre with the above title. It is sometimes paired with the A Dorian setting of  “Pigeon on the Gate” [2]. Source for notated version: Paddy LeBlac (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg]. Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; pg. 65. CLM Carl MacKenzie 1006 - “Celtic Ceilidh” (1987). Celtic CX 29, CX 51, BDMF 5-7009, Paddy (“Scotty”) LeBlanc - “This is Sydney,” “The Fiddling French Canadian Scot,” “The Best Damn Fiddling in the World.”

 

MISS BETTY CAMPBELL. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 62) and Robert M'Intosh's 1783 collection (pg. 34).

 

MISS BETTY CATHCART. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Riddel's 1757 collection (pg. 49).

 


MISS BETTY FINN. Canadian, Reeel. Canada, Cape Breton. F Major. Standard. AB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; pg. 33.

           

MISS BETTY FORBES REEL. Scottish (?), Reel. A Major. Standard. AABB’. Source for notated version: the music manuscript of Setauket, Long Island, New York, painter and fiddler William Sydney Mount (1807-1868)..

X:1

T:Miss Betty Forbes Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:William Sydney Mount manuscript  (c. 1840’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

A>EA>c BEBd | cAce (d/c/B/A/) GE | AFAc BGBd | (d/c/B/A/) GB A/A/A A2 :|

|: (ag).f.e “tr”(fe).d.c. | dBcA GBEB |1 (ag).f.e f(g{f/g/}a)f | ecdB A/A/A A2 :|2

ABcd efga | ecdB A/A/A A2 ||

                       

MISS BETTY HENDERSON. Shetland, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. "A very fine lady fiddler from Ayr, of Shetland origin. Written (by Tom Anderson) for her in 1958" (Anderson). Anderson (Ringing Strings), 1983; pg. 50.

 

MISS BETTY HUNTER. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB (Athole): AABB' (Kerr). Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 103, pg. 13. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 78.

X:1

T:Miss Betty Hunter

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

f|edcB c2Gc|AcGc EDDf|edcB c2Gc|AcGc ECC:|

F|ECEG cGAF|ECEG FDDF|ECEG cGAF|EcDF ECCF|

ECEG cGAF|ECEG FDDF|ECEG cdec|defd ec~c||

 

MISS BETTY MACDONALD. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (pg. 99).

 

MISS BETTY PLUMMER. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 64).

 

MISS BETTY SHAW. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 62).

 

MISS BETTY’S DELIGHT.  English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABBCC. Kennedy (Jigs & Quicksteps, Trips & Humours), 1997; No. 118, pg. 29.

 

MISS BIGG'S (OF NEWCASTLE) DELIGHT. Scottish, Strathspey. The tune is referred to in Watlen's 1798 Celebrated Circus Tunes performed at Edinburgh this season, in which it is described as "the celebrated Strathspey Minuet as danced by Mr. Lassells and Mrs. Parker at the Royal Circus, London and Edinburgh."

 

MISS BISSET, LOGIERAIT. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. The composition is credited to Malcolm McDonald of Dunkeld by Glen. It appears in MacDonald’s 4th collection, dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 45. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pg. 5.

X:1

T:Miss Bisset Logierait’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

egfd eg B2 | dBAG FAFD | egfd egBd | AFdF E/E/E E :|

GBEB GBe^c | dBAG FAFD | GBEB GBeB | AFdF E/E/E E2 |

GBEB GBe^c | dBAG FAFD | GBEB GBeg | fdgf e/e/e e2 ||

 

MISS BLAIR'S FANCY (Speis Ingine Blair). Irish, Double Jig. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB'. The 'A' part of this melody is the same as Joseph Allard's "Quadrille de Beauharnois." O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 189, pg. 103. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 168, pg. 42.

X:1

T:Miss Blair’s Fancy

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 168

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

B|dBG GBG|AFD DFD|EFG ABc|BAG FED|dBG GBG|AFD D/E/FD|EFG AFD|G3 G2:|

|:B|d2d dBd|gfg dBG|cec BdB|ABG AFD|1 dBd dBd|gfg dBG|EFG AFD G2 G2:|2

dBd def|gba gdB|EFG AFD|G3 G2||

                       

MISS BLAIR'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AABB. Emmerson, in Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String, notes the tune appears in a MS collection of 1768. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection. Bremner (A Collection of Scots Reels), 1757; pg. 5. Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. 12.

X:1

T:Miss Blair’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Bremner – Scots Reels (1757)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

“tr”(f>ef)d eBdA | “tr”(f>ef)d B/B/B B2 | “tr”(f>ef)d eBdA | (B/A/B/c/ d)F D/D/D D2 :|

|: (D/E/F/G/ A)F BGAF | GdFd E/E/E EF | (D/E/F/G/ A)F dFAF | GBAF D/D/D D2 :|

                       

MISS BLAKE’S FANCY. Scottish, Reel or Highland. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AABB. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 128, pg. 31.

 

MISS BLEWIT’S JIG.  AKA and see “Barney Brallaghan,” "Blewitt's Jig," “The Master Tailor’s Lilt.” Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABBCC. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 47, pg. 11.

 

MISS BOOTH’S HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB’. Soruce for notated version: the c. 1847 music manuscript of Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown]. Plain Brown Tune Book, 1997; pg. 33.

           

MISS BOURKE’S.  Irish , Reel. G Major (‘A’ part) & E Minor (‘B’ part). Standard tuning. AAB. The second part of the tune is similar to the second part of “Miss Brady.” Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 129, pg. 31.

           

MISS BOWLS MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning. AABB.  The melody appears in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; pg. 39.

                       


MISS BRADY (Ingean Ui Bradi). AKA and see "Considine's Grove{s},” “Cronin of Kerry,” “Dinny Ryan’s,” “The Game of Love,” “Girls of Farranfore,” “The Gneevgullia Reel,” “The Kerryman’s Daughter [2],” “Paddy Cronin’s [8],” “The Pride of Rathmore," “Rabbit’s Burrow.” Irish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. The first part is shared with “Bunch of Currents (2),” while the second part of the tune is similar to the second part of Kennedy’s “Miss Bourke’s.” “The Game of Love” tunes are related. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 118. The melody has just started to gain some currency in Scottish music, via Alasdair Fraser’s recording of it on “Portrait of a Scottish Fiddler.” The Donegal band Altan has recorded a version, as has the band Solas (under the title “Esther’s Reel”). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1324, pg. 248. Wildcat Records WILDCD 101, Ronan Martin – “Ronan Martin” (2008).

See also listings at:

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources 

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X:1

T:Miss Brady

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1324

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

EFGA {c}BAB^c | dDDE (FD)(FD) | EFGA BAGF | G(BA)(F G)E E2 :|

|: efge faf^d | efge fddf | gfe^d (3efg fe | dBAF GE Ez :|

 

MISS BRANDER. Scottish, Reel. D Minor. Standard tuning. AABB’. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 150, pg. 18.

X:1

T:Miss Brander

M:

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 4, No. 150  (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Dmin

E | (D/E/F) (ED) dfed | cAGF ECCE | (D/E/F) (ED) dfed | cAGE ADD :|

|: e | fede (f/g/a) (gf) | ecgc acgc |1 fede (f/g/a) (ge) | fde^c dDD :|2 fa^ga fd^cA } dfe^c dDD ||

 

MISS BREEN’S HOTEL. Irish, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Composed by Falmouth, Massachusetts, musician and writer Bill Black and named for an inn in the City Markets of Dublin’s George’s Street. Black (Music’s the Very Best Thing), 1996; No. 133, pg. 69.

X:1

T: Miss Breen's Hotel

C: © B. Black

Q: 300

R: hornpipe

M: 4/4

L: 1/8

K:A

(3efg | aece BeAe | aece BeAe | GABc dcde | gfed cdeg |

aece BeAe | aece Be A2 | GBdB ceaf | (3efe (3dcB A2 :|

(3FGA | BGEG AFDF | EFED CE (3ABc | dBGE ecAG | FEFA B2 (3Bcd |

BGEG AFDF | EFED CE (3ABc | dBGE ecAG | (3Fdc (3BAG A2 :|

 

MISS BROWN [1]. Old‑Time, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. See related tunes "Cotten Eyed Joe [2]" [2] and "Cousin Sally Brown [2]." The Carter brothers sang this ditty to the tune:
***

Never get it up, never get it down,
Never get it up for old Miss Brown.

***

Source for notated version: Carter Brothers and Son (Miss.) [Phillips]. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; pg. 152. County 528, Carter Brothers and Son ‑ "Mississippi Breakdown: Traditional Fiddle Music of Mississippi."

 

MISS BROWN [2]. See "Miss Brown's Fancy [2]."

 

MISS BROWN'S FANCY [1] (Roga Ingean {Ui} Brunac). AKA and see “The Belles of Clonallen,” “The Donegal Reel,” “Una Bhain ni Chuinneagin.” Irish, Hornpipe or Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB (Cole, O'Neill): AABB' (Kerr): AA'BB' (McNulty). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 14 (appears as "Miss Brown's", listed as a reel). Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 327, pg. 36 (hornpipe). McNulty (Dance Music of Ireland), 1965; pg. 11 (listed as a reel). O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 169 (listed as a hornpipe). O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1580, pg. 293. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 829, pg. 143. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 37.

See also listings at:

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources 

X:1

T:Miss Brown’s Fancy [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Hornpipe

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 829

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

(3AGE|D2D2 DFAF|dFAF dFAF|E2 EF GBEB|edcB AGFE|

D2 D2 DFAF|dFAF GFED|DFAg faec|e2d2d2:|

|:ag|fd (3ddd fdad|fd (3efg a2 ed|cA (3AAA ceAe|cdef g2 eg|

fd (3ddd fdad|fd (3efg a2 gf|gbag fedc|e2d2d2:|

 

MISS BROWN'S FANCY [2]. AKA and see "Maggie Brown's Favorite," "Peggy Browne." Irish, Set Dance (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. See note for “Maggie Brown’s Favorite.” O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 396, pg. 190.

See also listings at:

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X:1

T:Miss Brown’s Fancy [2]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Set Dance

S:O’Neill – O’Neill’s Irish Music (1915)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

g | d>BG B>cd | E2E E2B | AFD DEF | G2G G2g | d>BG B>cd | E2E E2B | AFD DEF | G3G3 :|

|: g/a/ | bgb afd | efg gfe | dBg dBG | AFD D2 g/a/ | bgb afd | efg gfe | faf ge^c | d2d def |

ece dBd | cac BgB | Ace dBG | FAF DEF | G>AB EFG | ABc def | gdB cAF | G3 G2 :|

 

MISS BROWN'S FANCY [3]. AKA and see "Last Night's Fun [2]," "Paddy be Aisy," "Hush the cat from under the table," "Wink and she'll follow you." Irish, Slip Jig. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AAB. From the Goodman manuscripts. The alternate ‘Be/Go easy’ titles are used interchangeably, although the tunes are quite different. Source for notated version: manuscripts in the possession of Sergeant James O’Neill, originally from County Down—many from the playing of his father [O’Neill]. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 184.

X:1

T:Miss Brown's Fancy

M:9/8

L:1/8

S:Sergt. James O'Neill manuscript

Z:Paul Kinder

K:Dmix

D2 A A2 G ABc|D2 A BGE G2 E|D2 A A2 G ABc|BAG AGE G2 E:||

c2 d ecA A2 c|B2 c dBG G2 B|c2 d ecA ABc|BAG AGE G2 E|

c2 d ecA A2 c|B2 c dBG G2 B|c2 d e2 f g2 e|dBG AGE G2 E||

 

MISS BROWN’S FANCY [4].  Irish, Slip Jig. A Mixolydian (‘A’ part) & D Major (‘B’ part). Standard tuning. AABB. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 48, pg. 11.

X:1

T:Miss Brown’s Fancy [5]

M:9/8

L:1/8

R:Slip Jig

S:Kennedy – Fiddler’s Tune Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes (No. 48)

K:Amix

B |: A3 edB efg | A3 edB d2B | A3 edB efg | gfg BcB d2B :|…

 

MISS BROWN’S FANCY [5] (Rogha Iníon de Brún).  Irish, Slip Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AB. Source for notated version: apparently from a mid-19th century fiddler’s manuscript written by William Fitzgerald, of west County Cork [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ V), 1999; No. 60, pg. 31.

X:1

T:Miss Brown’s Fancy [5]

M:9/8

L:1/8

R:Slip Jig

S:Breathnach – CRÉ V (No. 60)

K:Ador

E2A A2B cBc | E2F G2A BAG | E2A A2B c2d | efg dec BAG | …

 

MISS BROWN'S FAVOURITE. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Source for notated versions: James Aird, Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1782‑97). Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 6. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 212.

X:1

T:Miss Brown's Favorite

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Aird's Selections 1782-97

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Reel

K:G

c|BGGA FGAc|BGGA gdcB|caBg AGFD|EcAF G2 G:|

d|gdgb fgaf|gabg afdf|gdbd fdad|fgaf g2 g2|

dfad cegc|BdgB DAcA|BdgB cAec|EcAF G2 G||

 

MISS BROWN'S REEL. AKA and see “The Donegal Reel,” "The Hero," “Una Bhain Ni Chuinneagin,” "Wagoner [1]." American? Scottish?, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB: AABB (Howe, Phillips, White). The tune appears under this title in mid-nineteenth century publications (1851). It also appears copied into the c. 1840’s music manuscript copybook of Setauket, Long Island, painter and fiddler William Sydney Mount (1807-1868), among other Scottish dance tunes. Howe (1867) prints dance instructions and includes the melody in his section of Contra Dances. Alan Jabbour notes that the American tune “Wagoner” seems derivative. Source for notated version: New Hampshire Fiddlers' Union [Phillips]. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; pg. 75. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes), vol. 1, 1994; pg. 153. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883. White’s Unique Collection, 1896; No. 84, pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Brown’s Reel

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:White’s Unique Collection (1896), No. 84

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

(3G/F/E/ | DD D/F/A/F/ | d/F/A/F/ d/F/A/F/ | E(E/F/) G/B/E/B/ | e/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ |

DD D/F/A/F/ | d/F/A/F/ G/F/E/D/ | D/F/A/g/ f/a/e/c/ | ddd :: (a/g/) | (f/d/).d/.d/ (f/d/)a/d/ |

(f/d/) (3e/f/g/ a(e/d/) | (c/A/).A/.A/ (c/e/)A/e/ | c/d/e/f/ g(e/g/) | (f/d/).d/.d/ (f/d/)a/d/ |

(f/d/) (3e/f/g/ a(g/f/) | g/b/a/g/ f/e/d/c/ | ddd :|

X:2

T:Miss Brown’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:William Sydney Mount manuscript copybook, c. 1840’s.

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

(3GFE | D2 D2 FDAF | dFAF dFAF | E/E/E EE GBEG | eGBG eGFE |

D/D/D DD FDAF | dFAF GFED | DFAg faec | d2d2d2 :: (ag) | fd d/d/d fdad |

fd(3efg a2ed | cA A/A/A ceAe | cdef ge/g/ | fd d/d/d fdad | fd(3efg a2A2 |

Bgfg fedc | d2d2d2 :|

“Variations on first strain – by W.S.M.”

(3GFE | D/D/D D2 DFAF | dFAF dFAF | A,/A,/A, A,2 CEA,C | EA,CE A,CEA, |

D/D/D D2 FDAF | DFAF ADFA | Dgfg fedc | d2 {e}dc d2 :|

 


MISS BRUCE [1] (Ingean Ni Brusac). Irish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: Chicago Police Sergeant and fiddler James O’Neill, who helped Francis O’Neill compile his Music of Ireland. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 74. O'Neill (1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 751, pg. 140.

X:1

T:Miss Bruce [1]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland, No. 751 (1903)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

(A/G/)|FAd dcd|Adf fef|afd afd|cee e2 (A/G/)|FAd dcd|

Adf b2g|afd gec|ded d2::(f/g/)|afd dcB|ABA A2A|

Gab afd|cee e2 (e/f/)|afd dcd|Bdg b2g|fga gec|ded d2:|

 

MISS BRUCE [2]. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 70). Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 46, pg. 7.

X:1

T:Miss Bruce [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 46  (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

b|g2 (dB) dgda|gd e/d/c/B/ cAAf|g2 (dB) dgfa|b/a/g/f/ gd BGG:|

|:d|BGdB gdec|BGdB cAAd|BGdB d2 (ga)|b/a/g/f/ gd BGG:|

 

MISS BRUCE OF KINROSS. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 33).

 

MISS BUCHANAN OF CAMBUSMORE. Scottish, Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Shepherd, a business partner of one of the Gows. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 46.

X:1

T:Miss Buchanan of Cambusmore

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

B,|GFE EGE|EB,E E2F|GAB cAd|BGE AFD|GFE EGE|EB,E E2F|GAB cAF|BGE E2:|

B|e2f gfe|eBe e2f|g2a bge|afd def|e2f gfe|eBe e2F|GAB cAF|BGE E2B|

e2f gfe|eBe e2f|g2a bge|afd d2 g/a/|bgb af^d|gfe dBG|ABc BAF|BGE E2||

 

MISS BUCKLEY’S. Canadian, Clog (4/4 time). Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Cameron (Trip to Sligo), 1994; pg. 64.

 

MISS BUCKLEY’S DELIGHT.  English, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Gibbons sets the tune in the key of ‘C’ major in his ms. Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]. Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; pg. 15.

 

MISS BURCHELL’S HUMOUR.  English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody, like many in Charles and Samuel Thompson’s 1757 collection, first appeared in John Johnson’s 200 Favourite Country Dances (London, 1756). Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1), 1757; No. 95.

X:1

T:Miss Burchell’s Humour

M:2/4

L:1/8

B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (London, 1757)

Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock, 2007

Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

e3f|(ec) (BA)|(GA) (Bc)|{c}”tr”B4|e3 f|(ec) (BA)|E2 A2|A4::.e(cBA)|.e(cBA)|(cd)(ef)|”tr”e3 a|

.e(cBA)|.e(cBA)|(GA)(Bc)|{c}”tr”B4|.e(cBA)|.e(cBA)|(cd)(ef)|e3 a|”tr”e3 f|(ec)(BA)|E2 A2|A4:||

 

MISS BURKE. AKA and see "Planxty Miss Burke."

 

MISS BURNET'S REEL. AKA and see "Miss Jane Stewart('s Strathspey--Pittyvaich) [1]," "Miss Jane Campbell's Strathspey," "Johnny Pringle" {Gow's titel}. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833) and first published in an attachement (c. 1788) to his 1781 First Collection; in 1822 Marshall included it in his 1822 collection under the title "Miss Jane Stewart's Pittyvaich." It was called "Johnny Pringle" by Gow when he published it in his Repository, Part Third, 1806, undoubtedly in honor of one John Pringle who had published the melody in 1801 under the title "Miss Jane Campbell's Strathspey." Miss Burnet was the daughter of James Burnet (1714-1799), Lord Monboddo, and tragically died in “the bloom of her youth”, although not before being immortalized by being included among the subjects of several 18th century paintings. Her father, the Lord, was a man of letters and at the center of Edinburgh intelligencia of the time; he postulated a theory of the origin of the species prior to Darwin (Cowie, 1999). Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 58, pg. 86 ('A' part only).

 

MISS BURNET OF MONBODDO. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert MacIntosh's 1783 collection (pg. 31).

 

MISS BUSHBY MAITLAND’S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. The tune may possibly be named for Eliza Caroline, daughter of John Bushby Maitland of Eccles, county Dumfries, a Member of Parliament. Kohler (Violin Repository), pg. 7.

 

MISS BUTLER’S FANCY.  Irish, Slip Jig. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune-Book: Slip Jigs and Waltzes), 1999; No. 49, pg. 11.

 

MISS BUTLER’S REEL (Ríl Iníon de Buitléir). Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Source for notated version: the mid-20th century collection of schoolteacher and fiddler Michael “Master” McDermott (Carrickmore, County Tyrone), who got his tunes from local fiddlers [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 153, pg. 74.

 

MISS C. ELPHINSTONE. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody was composed by Duncan Macintyre. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 1.

X:1

T:Miss C. Elphinstone

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, Vol. 2 (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

C | A2 EF/G/ A/G/F/E/ AC | D<F E>C B,/B,/B, B,>d | (c/d/e) Ac d/e/f/d/ Bd | c<e B>c A/A/A A:|

f/g/ | a/g/f/e/ ca dbca | Aaca B/B/B Bf/g/ | a/g/f/e/ ca dbca | Fd/c/ Be/d/ cAA f/g/ |

a/g/f/e/ ca dbca | Aaca f/e/d/c/ B/c/d/f/ | e/d/c/B/ AE FADf | e<c a>c A/A/A A ||

 


MISS CAHOON. Scottish, Reel. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1768 2nd collection (pg. 98). Parlophone 78 RPM F3428, Jimmy Shand.

 

MISS CAMERON'S REEL—BALVENIE. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) locates Balvenie Farm on the River Fiddich near Dufftown. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 270. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 3.

X:1

T:Miss Cameron’s Reel—Balvenie

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

f|dB B/B/B ~B2 FB|ABcd egfe|dB B/B/B ~B2 FB|AfcA B2B:|

E|(DE)(FB) DBFB|(EF)(GB) EBGB|(Ac)(ec) (gf)(ed)|(ed)(cB) (BA)(GF)|

(DE)(FB) DBFB|(EF)(GB) EBGB|Bbag fedB|AFcA ~B2B||

                       

MISS CAMERON'S REEL--BANFF. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Cameron’s Reel—Banff

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

e|agae fedc|fBdB bBdf|agae fedc | eagb aAc :|

e|aAcA eAcA | fBdB bBdf | aAcA eAcA| eagb aAce |

aAcA eAcA | fBdB bBdf | efgb agfe | fgaf eAc ||

                       

MISS CAMPBELL. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning. AA’BBCC’DD’. Traditional. Cranford (Jerry Holland’s), 1995; No. 224, pg. 65.

                       

MISS CAMPBELL, LOCHEND. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody was composed by Malcolm McDonald and appears in his first collection, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 36. MacDonald (A Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 9.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell Loch-Ends Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C
c | GEGA c2 ce | dcde dcAc | GEGA cdea | gcgf ec c :|

e | gagc acgc |fdec Bdde | gagc acgc | fedf ecce |

gagc acgc |fdgc Bdde | cGEG cdea|gcgf ec c ||

                       

MISS CAMPBELL, MONZIE(S) [1]. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major (Kerr): C Major (Glen). Standard tuning. AB (Kerr): AAB (Glen). The tune appears in John Bowie's 1789 collection. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 33. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 5, pg. 3.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell, Monzie [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

c | G<G G>E G2 c>d | e2 d>c d<D D>G | E>G G<c A2 ag | e>g d<e c>CC :|

e | g>ag>e f>gf>d | e/f/g c>e d<G G>c | A<A A>B A2 a>g | e<gd<e cCCe |

g>ag>e f>gf>d | e/f/g c<e d>GG>c | A>GA>c A<a g>e | e<g d>e cCC ||

X:2

T:Miss Campbell Monzies

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 3

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

A | A<A A>F A2 (d>e) | ({d/e/}f2) (e>d e<EE>A | A<A A>F B2 (b>a) | f<a e>f d<DD>A |

A<A A>F A2 (d>e) | ({d/e/}f2) (e>d e<EE>A | A<A A>F B2 (b>a) | f<a e>f d<D D ||

f | a>ba>f g>ag>e | (f/g/a) d>f e>A A>d | B<B B>A B2 (b>a) | f<a e>f d<DD>f |

a>ba>f g>ag>e | (f/g/a) d>f e>A A>d | B>AB>d B>ba>g | f<a e>f d<D D ||

 

MISS CAMPBELL OF MENZIES [2]. AKA ‑ "Miss Campbell of Monzie," “Miss Campbell’s [2]." Scottish, Reel. C Major (Cranford/Holland, Glen, Skye): D Major (Huntington). Standard tuning. AAB (Cranford/Holland, Glen, Skye): AABB (Huntington). The tune has been attributed to Daniel Dow (c. 1775), though it was listed as "Anon." in Gow's 3rd Collection (1792). The title perhaps refers to one of the several daughters of Robert Campbell of Finab and Monzie (d. 1790), or one of the two daughters of his son, General Alexander Campbell (1751-1832) of Monzie, Gilmerton, Perthshire (see “General Campbell of Monzies Welcome Home”). The family seat was Monzie Castle, a combination of an early laird’s house dating from 1634 with a late 18th century Gothic building with corner towers designed by John Paterson for the General. The melody has had some currency among Cape Breton musicians, and in fact there is a Canadian connection; the younger Campbell, then a Captain in the 62nd Regiment, served under “Gentleman” Johnny Burgoyne in Canada, and surrendered with him at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. Alexander Campbell was later a founding member of the Highland Society of Scotland in 1784, and an MP variously for Anstruther Easter burghs and Stirling. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 277 (appears as "Miss Campbell of Monzie"). Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 77, pg. 31. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 19. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pg. 24 (3rd ed.). Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. (appears as "Miss Campbell's Reel"). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 121.

See also listings at:

Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources  

X:1

T:Miss Campbell of Monzie [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

e|c2 Gc ecGE|FdEc dDDB|c2 Gc EcGE|FADF ECC|:|

f|ecgc acgc|ec a/g/f/e/ fddf|gcac gcec|Bcdf eccf|ecgc acgc| egce fddf|gecf afdc|Bcdf ecc||

X:2

T:Miss Campbell of Monzie’s [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Gow – 3rd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., pg. 24  (orig. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

e|”tr”c2 Gc ecGE|Fd Ec dDDB|”tr”c2 Gc EcGE|FADF ECC:||f|ecgc acgc|

ec (a/g/)f/e/ fddf|gcac gcec|(Bcd)f eccf|ecgc acgc|egce fddf|gecf afdc|Bcdf ecc||

 

MISS CAMPBELL OF MONZIE [3]. Scottish, Jig. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody was composed by Robert Mackintosh. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 29.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell of Monzie [3]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2 (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

F|(D/E/F)F F2B|(E/F/G)G G2B|(A/B/c)c c2e|dfb fdB|(D/E/F)F F2B|(E/F/G)G G2B| A>Bc FGA|B3 B2:|

B|d>ef fdB|egb bge|d>ef fdB|A>Bc cAF|d>ef fdB|egb bge|def edc|B3 B2e|

d>ef fdB|egb bge|def fdB|ABc cAF|GAB ABc|Bcd efg|fed cBA|B3 B2||

 

MISS CAMPBELL OF MONZIE’S [4].  Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in the 4th collection of Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld, a volume dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pg. 10.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell of Monzie’s Strathspey [4]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

D | G<G {A}G>F G2B2 | B<d c/B/c/d/ A<F A>c | B<G G>D G2g2 | g>c A/B/c/A/ BGG :|

f | “tr”g>f d<f g<g {a}b2 | f>c d>f A<FAf | g>f d<f g>a {g/a/}b2 | f>c A/B/c/A/ BGGf |

“tr”g>F d<f g<g {a}b2 | f>c d<f A>FAg | b>ga>f g>df>c | G>g f/g/a/f/ g<GG ||

                       

MISS CAMPBELL OF SADDELL [1]. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time), “Pastoral” or Strathspey. D Major (Gatherer): B Flat Major (Hunter). Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Robert Macintosh (c. 1745-1807), appearing in his 3rd Collection (1796). Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 25. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 26. Henderson (Flowers of Scottish Melody), 1935. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 57.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell of Saddell's [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Air

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2 (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

B<d d>c BA B2 | Ge/d/ c>B A<F F>c | d>e d<c B>A B<F | G<E C>F DB,B, :|

B/c/ | d<Bg<e cd/e/ f2 | B<G e/d/c/B/ A<F F>B|G<Ec<E FG/A/ B2 |

EF/G/ F>E DB,B,B/c/ | d<Bg<e c<Af<d | B<G c>B A<F F>B | G<Eg<e fAB<F | G<E C>F D<B,B, ||

 

MISS CAMPBELL OF SADDELL [2]. Scottish, Reel. D Minor. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Robert Macintosh. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 40.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell of Saddell [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2 (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Dmin

A|FDdD F(AAc)|ECcG E(GGA)|FDfd e^cdA|BGA^c d/d/d (dA)|FDdD F(AAc)|

ECcG E(GGE)|FDGE AFBG|Ad^ce d/d/d d||a|bgaf gefd|egcg ecgc|bgaf gefd|

^ceAa f(dda)|bgaf gefd|egcg ecge|dfeg fagb|agfe fdd||

                       

MISS CAMPBELL OF SHEENESS. Scottish. Green Linnet SIF‑1094, Capercaillie ‑ "Sidewaulk" (1989).

                       

MISS CAMPBELL'S [1]. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Robert MacIntosh. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 140. Shanachie 114001, "The Early Recordings of Angus Chisholm" (Cape Breton).

X:1

T:Miss Campbell’s [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Skye  Collection (1887)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

f|cFAF DF CF|B,FA,F GG,G,f|cFAF DFCF|B,G, BG AFFf|cFAF DFCF|

B,FA,F GG,G,B|Acf_e dBgf|ecbg aff||g|(a/g/f/e/) fc fcAF|BdcA BGGg|

(a/g/f/e/) fc Acfc|dBbg affg|afef dfcf|BfAf gGGB|AcFA BdGB|cegb aff||

 

MISS CAMPBELL'S [2]. AKA and see “Miss Campbell of Menzies [2],” “Molly What Ails You?” Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AB. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 20. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 43.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell’s [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

A|G>EGA c2 c>e|({e}d>)cde dcAc|GEGA c>dea|g>cg>f eccA|

G>EGA c2 c>e|({e}d>)cde dcAc|GEGA c>dea|gcgf ecc||

e|g>agc acgc|fdec Bdde|g>agc acgc|fedf ecce|

gagc acgc|fdec Bdde|cGEG cdea|gcgf ecc||

 

MISS CAMPBELL [3] (Ingean Uí Campbell). Irish, Scottish (originally); Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 126. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1366, pg. 255. Roche Collection, 1982, vol. 1; No. 164, pg. 64.

X:1

T:Miss Campbell [3]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1366

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

B | AF (3ABc dc (3def | {f}edef edBd | AF (3ABc Bdgb |1 af{a}ge fdBd :|2 ~agec ed d ||

f | abaf {a}gefd | (3gfe (3fed ceef | abaf {a}gefd | (3gfe (3dcB Addf | abag fedf |

(3efg (3fed ceef | cA (3FGA Bdgb | ~agec ed d ||

 

MISS CAMPBELL'S REEL [4]. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning. AB. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 130, pg. 31.

                       

MISS CARBERY'S REEL. AKA and see “Mason’s Apron.” English, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. A version of the famous “Mason’s Apron.” Huntington says Joyce, in Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (pg. 164), gives the tune in a quite different setting called "Lady Carbury." Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. 12.

                       

MISS CARMICHAEL. Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning. AABB’. An 18th century tune composed by William Shepherd. Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 196, pg. 77. Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland – “Parlor Music” (2005).

                       

MISS CARMICHAEL'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. Johnson states that this minuet, printed in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), was evidently fashioned from an older, slower traditional Scots piece called "Galway's Lament" which can be found in the Sinkler Manuscript (1710) and the McFarlane Manuscript (Vol. 2, 1740). Source for notated version: Gillespie Manuscript, Perth, 1768, pg. 75. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 60, pg. 153.

                       

MISS CAROLINE CAMPBELL [1]. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composition credited to William McLeish by James Stewart-Robertson. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 291.

X:1

T:Miss Caroline Campbell

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

C:William MacLeish

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

A|B2 d/c/B/A/ B2 FB|GBFD ECCA|GdcA B2 FB|GBFE DB,B,:|

g|fBdB FBDg|gBdB Accg|fBdB FBDF|EGFE DB,B,g|fBdB FBDg|

fBdB Ac~ce|dBAB GeFd|EGFE DB,~B,||

 

MISS CAROLINE CAMPBELL [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. ABB'. Composition credited to William McLeish by James Stewart-Robertson. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 291.

X:1

T:Miss Caroline Campbell

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

C:William MacLeish

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

d|f<f f>b d2 B>d|e>c e/d/c/B/ A<c c>d|f<f f>b d2 B>d|e>c e/d/c/B/ F<B B>d|

f<f f>b d2 B>d|e>c e/d/c/B/ A<c c>e|B>df>b g2 e>g|f>dc>f d<B~B||d/e/|f<Bb>B f2 d>g|

f>dd>B A<c cd/e/|1 f<Bb>B a<B g>B|F<B A>c d<B~B:|2 G<eF<d E<cD<B|G>g f>e d<B~B||

                       

MISS CARROLL’S HORNPIPE. Irish, Hornpipe. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: copied from O’Farrell’s National Irish Music (1797) [’Neill]. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 323.

X:1

T:Miss Carroll's Hornpipe

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:O'Farrell's National Irish Music 1797

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Hornpipe

K:D

(3ABc|dAFA BGEG|FAdf dcBA|Bdgf edcB|ceAA A3 G|

FAdf dAGF|GBef gedc|(3def af bgec|d2 de d2:|

|:A2|dgba gfed|ceag fedc|Bdgf edcd|B2 BB B3 c|

d2 df dAGF|egfa gedc|(3def af bgec|d2 de d2:||

                       

MISS CASEY [1] (Ingean Uí Catasaig). AKA and see "Fairhaired Boy [1]," "Buachallin Ban [1]." Irish, Double Jig. A Dorian (O’Neill): E Dorian (Miller, O’Brien). Standard tuning. AAB (O’Brien): AABB (Miller): AABB' (O’Neill). A very similar tune, and possibly ancestral to, “The Orphan [2]” (played in E dorian), or both may be a development of “Star of the County Down” and Bayard’s protean “Lazarus” group. The key is given in the book in A major, a miss-print. Source for notated version: Ennis [O’Neill]. Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 238, pg. 87. Miller (Fiddler’s Throne), 2004; No. 77, pg. 57. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 69. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1979; No. 1094, pg. 206. Jerry Holland – “Lively Steps” (1988).

See also listings at:

Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index

Jane Keefer’s Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources

Alan Ng’s Irishtune.info

X:1

T:Miss Casey [1]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:O’Neill – Music of Ireland (1903), No. 1094

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Ador

A/G/|EAA AGE | cBc dcd | e=ge ded | cAA GED |

EAA AGE | c3 dcd | e=ge ded | cAA A2 :|

|: z | eaa age | dcd gab | age ded | cAA GED |1 eaa age | dcd gab |

agf ded | cAA A2 :|2 EAA AGE | c3 dcd | e=ge ded | cAA A2 ||

X: 2

T: Miss Casey's [1]

S: J. O'Brien: "Irish Folk Dance Music"

Z: Transcribed by Bill Black

M: 6/8

L: 1/8

Q: 325

R: jig

K: Edor

B,/D/ | EFE EDB, | GFG AGA | BdB ABA | GEE DB,D |

EFE EDB, | GFG AGA | BdB ABA | GEE E2 :|

d | efe edB | AGA def | edB ABA | GEE DB,D |

efe edB | AGA def | edB ABA | GEE E2 d |

efe edB | AGA def | edB ABA | GEE DB,D |

EFE EDB, | GFG AGA | BdB ABA | GEE E2 :|

 


MISS CASEY [2]. AKA ‑ "Mrs./Mistress/Madam Casey/Cassey." Scottish, Jig. A Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. A form of "Over the River to Charlie [1]." Gow noted that this tune was "one of the most fashionable dances in Edinburgh 1787‑88." Button and Whittaker (Pocket Collection of Favorite Marches), vol. 1, pg. 64. Cahusac (Pocket Companion for the German Flute), c. 1795‑1800, vol. 2, pg. 5. Cahusac (German Flute Preceptor), c. 1794‑1800; pg. 26. Gow (Strathspey Reels), vol. 2, 1788, pg. 35. JEFDS, 2nd Series, No. 2, pg. 23. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3, No. 299. Preston, 1796, pg. 22. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1840, pg. 89.

X:1

T:Midd Casey [2]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 299 (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

e|c2A ABA|G2G GAG|A2A ABA|f3 (e2d)|c2A ABA|

G2G GAG|A2A ABA|c3 e2::G|c2d e2f|g2a g2e|c2d e2f|

g3 efg|A2f g2e|f2d e2d|c2A ABA|f3 e2:|

 

MISS CASEY’S [3]. Irish, Double Jig. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AABB. No relation to “Miss Casey’s [1].” Source for notated version: Liam Greenall (Liverpool, England) [Mulvihill]. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 95, pg. 85.

 

MISS CASSIDY (Iníon Uí Chasaide). Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. Source for notated version: from James McMahon (County Fermanagh) via Liam Donnelly (County Tyrone)[Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 99, pg. 53.

 

MISS CATHERINE ANN LAMEY’S. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Atlantica Music 02 77657 50222 26, Richard Wood - “Atlantic Fiddles” (1994).

 

MISS CATHERINE CHALMERS. See "Miss Cathrine Chalmers."

 

MISS CATHERINE MAXWELL'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet. The Earl of Kelly, a gentleman fiddler and composer, wrote this minuet in the 1760's. Later Ms. Maxwell became Mrs. Fordyce and Robert Macintosh wrote a strathspey for her, published in 1792 (see "Mrs. Fordyce of Ayton's Strathspey").

 

MISS CATHERINE MAXWELL'S SCOTS MEASURE. Scottish, Scots Measure. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Abraham Mackintosh, son of Robert 'Red Rob' Mackintosh. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 312.

 

MISS CATHERINE STEWART--PETTYVAICH. AKA – “Lady Catherine Stewart.” Scottish, Jig (12/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Miss Catherine was the daughter of Thomas Steward and Ann Gordon, and was born in 1767 at the farm of Keithmore, a holding of Lord Gordon. Marshall and his family resided at Keithmore in the 1790’s, as it had been vacated by the Stewarts who had moved to the farm of Pittyvaich on Lord Duff’s land (Moyra Cowie, The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999). Marshall would have had contact with the family in his capacity as Lord Gordon’s Steward of the Household. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection, p. 9. Rounder CDROUN7053, Theresa Morrison – “Lake Bras d’Or: Scottish Violin Music from Cape Breton Island” (2005. Appears as “Lady Catherine Stewart”).

X:1

T:Miss Catherine Stewart—Pettyvaich

M:12/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:Marshall – 1845 Collection

K:F

F2d cAF GAF E2C|F2d cAF cde f2c|def cAF GAF E2G|F2d cAF CDE F3:|

fcf agf egb bge|fcf agf efg cBA|dBd cBA GAF EDC|F2d cAF CDE F3|

fBf agf egb bge|fcf agf def cBA|dBd cBA GAF EDC|F2d cAF CDE F3||

 

MISS CATHRINE CHALMERS. AKA – “Chathrine Chalmer.” Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831). There was a bookseller in Edinburgh in the early decades of the 19th century named James Chalmers, who partnered for some years with musician Charles Duff to sell music. Surely Gow, in the music selling business himself, knew the firm, and it is possible Miss Chalmers was a relation. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 15. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 240. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 3rd ed., 1792; p. 29.

X:1
T:Miss Catharine Chalmer’s Reel

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

C:Nathaniel Gow

B:Gow – Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

(B/c/d) “tr”cB (c/d/e) “tr”dc|BEAG {G}F2 ED|BGDB, CEAc|BGAF G2 Gc|(B/c/d) “tr”cA (c/d/e) “tr”dc|

BEAG {G}F2 ED|BGDB, CEAc|BGAF G2 Gd||gbge (^df)bd|(eg).e.d (^ce)ac|”tr”d>efd Bgeg|

fde^c d2 D2|{e}dc/B/ bB caAc|BgGB .A(F”tr”ED)|(dB).B.d (cA).A.c|BGAF G2G2||

 

MISS CAW'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet. The melody appears in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth.

 

MISS CHALMER [1]. Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 351. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; p. 17 (3rd ed.).

X:1

T:Miss Chalmers Jig  [1]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

C:Nathaniel Gow

B:Gow – 3rd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., pg. 17  (orig. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

B|AFD DED|EFE “tr”E2B|AFD DED|AFD Bcd|AFD DED|
EFE E2d|”tr”c3 {B/c/}dc”tr”B|AFD D2:||(f/g/)|afd ded|efe efg|

afd ded|f>ga {b}agf|gbg faf|efe efg|afd gec|

{c}”tr”d3 D2f/g/|afd ded|efe efg|afd ded|”tr”fga {b}agf|

(g/a/b).g (f/g/a).f|efe efg|afd gec|dBG AFd||

 

MISS CHALMERS [2]. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Robert Ross's 1780 collection (pg. 24).

 

MISS CHALONER’S FANCY. Irish, Jig. The tune was published in 1801 as “Miss Chaloner’s Fancy” (Breathnach, 1996). It appears in Darley & McCall’s Feis Ceoil Collection of Traditional Irish Music (1914, reprinted as the Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music) as the jig part of the piece “The Mummer’s Jig and Reel” (No. 72).

 

MISS CHAMERS. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 27).

 


MISS CHANDLER'S HORNPIPE. English, Hornpipe. England, North‑West. G Major. Standard tuning. AA'BB'. Composed by Jamie Knowles. Knowles (Northern Frisk), 1988; No. 141.

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MISS CHARLOTTE ALSTON STEWART’S. Scottish, Canadian; Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune appears in Duncan McKercher’s Collection (Vol. III, c. 1830), David Glen’s bagpipe Tutor (Book II, 1876-1901) and Barry Shears’ Gathering of the Clans Collection (Halifax, 1991). Shears attributes it to Duncan McKerchar. Dunlay and Greenberg (1996) find the first part of the tune the same as the second part of the reel “Thailer a bha Me Sherridh is Feader a Thuair Me” (A Tailor I was Seeking and Weaver that I Got) in Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music (1885). Source for notated version: Donald Angus Beaton (Mabou, Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg]. Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; pg. 51. Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection), 1986; pg. 62. AMI 92, Ashley MacIssac - “Close to the Floor” (1992. Appears as “A Pipe Tune”). DAB-3, 26-1 Kinnon Beaton - “Cape Breton Fiddle 1" (1982. Appears as “Traditional Reel”). DAB4-1985, Donald Angus Beaton - “A Musical Legacy” (1985. Appears as “Traditional Reel” after “Sheep Shanks”). GSR 076, Tracey Dares - “Crooked Lake” (1995). Ingold 2001-4, Jerry Holland and Dave MacIssac - “Lantern Burn” (1990's). Rounder 7006, Theresa MacLellan - “A Trip to Mabou Ridge” (1979. Appears as 4th tune in the “King’s Reel” medley). Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland – “Parlor Music” (2005).

 

MISS CHARLOTTE ANN LOWE. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning. AABB'. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 194, pg. 22.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Ann Lowe

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 2, No. 194

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

B | (AF)F2 (BG)G2 | (AF)F2 EGEC | (AF)F2 BAGB | AFGE F3 :|

|: e | (fc)c2 Acfa | bagf egec |1 (fc)c2 Acfa | bgfe f3 :|2 dfeg fagf | ecde fdc ||

 

MISS CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB'. Composition credited to William MacLeish in Kerr. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 205, pg. 23.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Campbell

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 2, No. 205

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

A | B2 (d/c/B/A/)B2 (FB) | GBFD ECCA | BdcA B2 (FB) | GBFE DB,B, :|

|: g | fBdB FBDg | fBdB Accg |1 fBdB FBDF | EGFE DB,B, :|2 fBAB GeFd | EGFE DB,B, ||

 

MISS CHARLOTTE DUNDAS. Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by William Shepherd, a business partner of one of the Gows. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 30.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Dundas

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

B|B,>B e/d/c/B/ A>cc>f|B,>Bd>B f>Bd>B|e>c e/d/c/B/ A>cc>g|f>de>c d>BB>F|

B,>B e/d/c/B/ A>cc>f|B,>Bd>B f>Bd>B|E>cD>B C>DE>G|F>A cd/e/ dBB||

g|f>B e/d/c/B/ FA/B/ c>A|f>Bd>B f>Bd>f|e>gd>f FA/B/ cA|E>GF>D B,BBg|

f>B e/d/c/B/ FA/B/ c>A|f>Bd>B f>Bd>B|eg/e/ df/d/ FA/B/ c>A|E>C D/E/F/E/ D<B, B,||

           

MISS CHARLOTTE ROSS.  Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 93.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Ross

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Surenne – Dance Music of Scotland, pg. 93  (1852)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

d | BAGF EFGB | AdFd AdFd | BAGF EFGB | Adfe d3d | BAGF EFGB |

AdFd AdFd | BAGF EFGB | Adfe d3 || A | dddf cdef | dddf dAdf |

dddf cdef | dfef d3A | dfdf cdef | dfeg fdec | cBAF EFGB | Adfe d3 ||

           

MISS CHARLOTTE STEWART.  Scottish, Reel. D Minor. Standard tuning. AB. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 78.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Stewart

M:C
L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Surenne – Dance Music of Scotland, pg. 78   (1852)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Dmin

F | DEFG A3d | cAGF (E/4F/2<G) EC | DEFG A3d | cAGE D<DDF |

DEFG A3d | cAGF (E/4F/2<G) EC | DEFG A3d | cAGE D<DD || f |

defg adfd | gcec c’gec | defg adfd |gece d<dde |

defg adfd | ceg=b c’gec | defg ac’ge | cec’e d<dd ||

 

MISS CHARLOTTE STIRLING’S JIGG.  Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB’. The melody appears in John Bowie’s A Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances (Edinburgh, 1789). S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 39.

X:1

T:Miss Charlotte Stirling’s Jigg

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:John Bowie – Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances (1789)

K:D

B|AFD DFD|AFA d2B|AFD DFD|ECA, A,2B|AFD DFD|AFA d2A|

BdB cec|d2d d2::g|faf d2f|gbg e2g|faf d2f|ecA A2g|1

faf d2f|gbg e2g|fdf ece|d2d d2:|2 faf def|gbg efg|faf gec|d2d d2||

 

MISS CHARTERS. AKA ‑ "Miss Charteri." Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Daniel Dow, and first appearing in his c. 1775 collection (pg. 7). He was an Edinburgh composer and music teacher who lived from 1732 to 1783, perhaps most famous as the composer of “Money Musk.” Dow published a collection of Scots tunes called Thirty-seven new reels and strathspeys (1775) which appears to be the first collection to include the word "strathspey" in its title. His family is known to have stayed in Strathardle and his son (John Dow) was born "at Kirkmichael. Dow, whose first name has been given as Daniel or Donald (both acceptable translations for the Gaelic ‘Domhnull’) was buried in the Canongate Kirk,  Edinburgh on January 20th, 1783.Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 278 (appears as "Miss Charteri"). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 134. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 193.

X:1

T:Miss Charters

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

d|gaba g2 fd|cdfg agfa|gaba g2fd|cdfA G/G/G G:|

c|B/c/d BG BdgB|A/B/c AF Acfc|B/c/d BG BdgB|AG^FA G/G/G GA|

B/c/d BG BdgB|A/B/c AF AcfA|Bcd=e fgfd|cfcA G/G/G G||

 

MISS CHARTERE’S REEL.  Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Malcolm MacDonald and appearing in his first collection, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. MacDonald (A Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 7.

X:1

T:Miss Chartere’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

B | BF F/F/F BcdB | cBcd edcd | BF F/F/F Bcdg | fdcd B/B/B B :|

d | Bcde fgfd | cBcd edcd | Bcde fgfd | cBcd B/B/B B2 |

Bcde fgfd | cBcd edcd | BcBG FGBg | fdcd B/B/B B ||

 

MISS CHIRSTY STEWART. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune was composed by Malcom MacDonald and appears in his first collection, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 35. MacDonald (A Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 8.

X:1

T:Miss Chirsty Stewart

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

c | (d/c/B/A/) Gc AcGc | EcGc D(dd)c | (d/c/B/A/) Gc AcGc | Aagf ecc :|

g | ecgc acgc | ecgc Bddg | ecgc acgc | egdg eccg | ecgc acgc | ecgc B(dd)c |

(d/c/B/A/) Gc AcGc | A(agf) ecc ||

 

MISS CHRISTIE OF DURRIE. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by J. Walker. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 21.

X:1

T:Miss Christie of Durrie

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2   (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

B|c2 Bc GcBc|defd cBAG|c2 Bc defd|ecdB c2c:|

f|g2 eg f2 df|afed cBAG|c2 Bc defd|ecdB c2 cf|

g2 eg f2 df|afed cBAG|cedf egfa|gefd c2c||

 

MISS CHRISTY NICHOLSON.  Canadian, Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler Ronald MacLellan (1918-2004), who was one of the most famous exponents of old-style Cape Breton fiddling. He came from a musical family: his sister Theresa MacLellan is also a renowned Cape Breton musician, and his father Big Donald MacLellan was similarly influential among fiddlers of his generation (such as Dan R. MacDonald, Bill Lamey and Donald Angus Beaton). Cape Breton Collection, 1940. Cranford (Jerry Holland: The Second Collection), 2000; No. 57, pg. 24. Rounder 7044, Ronald MacLellan – “The Dusky Meadow” (2004).

See also listings at:

Alan Snyder’s Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index 

                       


MISS CLARK. Scottish, Reel. The dance to this tune was written down in 1752 by John McGill, a dancing master from Girvan, for his students.

 

MISS CLARK’S HORNPIPE.  American, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABA. The melody was published in George P. Knauff’s Virginia Reels, vol. III (Baltimore, 1839).

X:1

T:Miss Clark’s Hornpipe

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Hornpipe

N:Play AABA

B:George P. Knauff – Virginia Reels, vol. III (Baltimore, 1839).

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

D>GB>G d>Be>d|e2A2A2 B>c|d>Be>d c>BA>G|F>GA>F D>dc>A|D>GB>G d>Be>d|

c2A2A2 B>c|d>BG>B c>AF>A|G2B2G2:||F>Ad>f a>fd>A|G>Bd>g b>gd>B|c>de>d c>BA>G|

F>GA>F D>dc>A|F>Ad>f a>fd>A|G>Bd>g b>gf>d|A2 ^c2 g>eA>c|d>^cd>e d>=cB>A||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA DRUMMOND. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. The title perhaps refers to Clementina Drummond, daughter of Captain James Drummond, Baron Perth. Drummond managed, in 1784, to reclaim the Drummond estates that had been confiscated by the crown for the family’s involvement in the Rising of 1745, and his property descended to Clementina upon his death in 1800. She married the twelfth Lord Willoughby de Efesby. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 101, pg. 13.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Drummond

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 101

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

(e/d/) | (c<A) A>c B>GE>e | (c<A) A>c d<f B<d | c>e A<c B>GE>f | e>c e/d/c/B/ (A2 A)e |

(c<A) A>c B>GE>e | (c<A) A>c d<f B<d | c<e A<c B>GE>f | e>c e/d/c/B/ (A2A) ||

(f/g/) | a/g/f/e/ a>e c<A A(B/c/) | d>cB>A G<E E(f/g/) | a/g/f/e/ a>e c<e f<a | g>eB>^d (e2 e)(f/g/) |

a/g/f/e/ a>e c<A A(B/c/) | d?cB?A? G<E E>d | c<e f<a g<b a>g | f>ef>g (a2a) ||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA LOUGHMAN. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AAB (Hunter): AABCCD (Carlin/Gow). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831). Clementina Loughnan (sometimes given as ‘Loughman’ or ‘Loughlan’) was the third daughter of Thomas Loughnan, a merchant in Madeira, and Philedelphia Fergusson. She married Sir Sydney Beckwith (1772-1831) in London. Beckwith was a Major General in the British Army, who fought in Ameica in the War of 1812 and who died in Mahabaleshwar, India. He was Quarter Master for Canada between 1815 and 1823 and oversaw the arrival of Scottish immigrants to the country in 1816 (the township of Beckwith, Lanard County, Ontario, is named for him). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 141. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pgs. 6-7 (3rd ed.). Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 161. SMD615, Pete Clark – “Even Now: the Musci of Neil Gow”.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Loughnan’s Strathspey

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

C:Nathaniel Gow

B:Gow – 3rd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels, 3rd ed., pgs. 6-7   (orig. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

A/B/|”tr”c2 f>d|{d}cB/A/ cd/e/|{e}f>d cA|{A}G2 GA/B/|”tr”c2 f>d|{d}cB/A/ ca/g/|

“tr”fd”tr”cA|{A}F2F2:||c/B/|”tr”A>B cc|dBBd|{d}c{B}A fA|{A}G2 Gc/B/|

“tr”A>B cc|dBdg|(eg)ce|”tr”f2 {e/f/}Fc/B/|”tr”A>B cc|dBBd|

ca/g/ fA|{A}G2 Gc/B/|Acf_e|dBgb|(b/a/)g/f/ (c/f/)(e/g/)|”tr”f2 {e/f/}F2||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA SARAH DRUMMOND OF PERTH. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in John Bowie's 1789 collection. Miss Clementina Sarah Drummond was born in 1786, making her all of three years old when Bowie composed his tune. The Drummonds were a noble family of Gow’s home county of Perthshire, loyal to the Jacobite cause for which several of the family died for or were exiled. Clementina Sarah Drummond (1786-1865) was the only surviving child and heir of James Drummond (d. 1800), the first Lord Perth, and Clementina Elphinstone (d. 1822, see “Honorable Miss Drummond of Perth”), Lady Drummond, from whom she inherited an extensive fortune and vast Perthshire estates. In 1807 she married Peter Robert Burrell, Lord Gwydyr, Lord Willoughby of Eresby, who was a great dandy of the day. Upon their marriage he joined his wife’s family name to his, upon the insistence of his father-in-law. Burrell’s parents were also gentry; he inherited the title Lord Gwydyr in 1820 on the death of his father, and Lord Willoughby de Eresby in 1828 (21st of the line), when his mother died. Thus Clementina became Lady Willoughby de Eresby. The couple resided at Drummond Castle, where the gardens (now one of the finest in Scotland) were reshaped into a vast formal parterrein in the 1840’s for Sarah. Queen Victoria planted copper beech trees when she visited the castle in 1842.

***

Clementina was a patroness of Almack’s assembly rooms, St. James, London, but was considered “to be the highest stickler and overly grand,” along with Lady Castlereagh. In fact, she is often featured as a prime villainess in modern Regency-setting romance novels. Balls were held every Wednesday night during the Season. Admittance was tightly controlled by a social elite of women, a committee of patronesses, who, in 1814 (according to a report by Captain Gronow, a Guards officer), included Lady Castlereagh, Lady Jersey, Lady Cowper, Lady Sefton, Mrs. Drummond-Burrell, Princess Esterhazy and Countess Lieven. A rejected application for a season pass to Almacks was cause for social ruin, and the cabal of patronesses made sure that the merchant and pretending classes were kept well away. Curiously, money was not a prime dictator of acceptance, but rather manners, breeding and rank were the desired elements in an applicant.

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Henry Luttrell (1766-1851), Irish poet and wit, quipped in verse:

***

All on the magic List depends

Fame, fortune, fashion, lovers, friends;

‘Tis that which gratifies of vexes

All ranks, all ages, and both sexes.

If once to Almack’s you belong,

Like monarchs you can do no wrong;

But banished thence on Wednesday night,

By Jove, you can do nothing right.

***

There were other melodies composed for Sarah Drummond: see “Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth [1].” Dancing in 1814, according to Gronow, was Scotch reels and the old English country-dance, “and the orchestra, being from Edinburgh, was conducted by the then celebrated Neil [sic] Gow.” He meant Nathaniel Gow, for Niel had died in 1807. The next year the quadrille was introduced, followed soon after by the waltz. [Grego, Joseph – The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow 1810-1860 (London, 1889)]. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol.1, 1891; pg. 26.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Sarah Drummond of Perth

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1  (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

e/d/|c<AA<c B>GEe|c<Aac d<fB<d|c<eAc B>Gef|ec e/d/c/B/ A2 A:|

f/g/|a/g/f/e/ a>e c<A AB/c/|d<c B>A G(EE)f/g/|a/g/f/e/ ae cefa|geB^d (e2 d)f/g/|

aece dfBd|cecA GBEd|defa gbag|f>efg (a2a)||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART OF GARTH’S JIG. Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody appears in the 3rd collection of Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld, a volume dedicated to Miss Drummond of Perth. The Stewarts of Garth are a sept of the Stewart clan. MacDonald (A Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1792; pgs. 10-11.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Stewart of Garth’s Jigg

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:MacDonald – 3rd Collection of Strathspey Reels (c. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

A | d2d def | ecA AcA | Bcd AGF | GEE E2A | d2d def | ecA AcA | BdB cec | d3d2 :|

|: g | fdf agf | ece efg | fdf agf | ecA A2g | fdf agf | ece efg | fdf ece | d3d2 :|

 

MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART’S JIGG.  Scottish, Jig. G Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Malcolm MacDonald, this tune appears in his Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1, a volume dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. Clementina was the daughter of Sir John Stewart, 4th Bart. of Grandtully. She married Alexander Moray, 14th of Abercairny. MacDonald (Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 19.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Stewart’s Jigg

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

D | G3G2A | B2c (B/c/d)c | BAG F2c | AFA cAF | G3G2A | B2c (B/c/d)c |

BAG DG^F | G3G2 :| g | gdg gdg | gdg g>(ba/g/) | fcf fcf | fcf f>(ag/f/) | gdg gdg |

gdg g>(ba/g/) | fcf cAF | {D}G3G2g | gdg gdg | gdg g>(ba/g/) | fcf fcf |

fcf f>(ag/f/) | gdd d2=e | f2g fag | fdf cAF | {D}G3 G2 ||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART'S REEL [1]. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Malcolm MacDonald, this tune appears in his Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1, dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth. MacDonald (Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); pg. 13.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Stewart’s Reel [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

F | E2 CE cGEC | FAEc dDDF | E2 CE cGEC | FAGF EC C :|

f | g/f/e cg egcg | fage addf | g/f/e cg egcg | fagf eccf |

g/f/e cg egcg | fage addg | egcd cAGE | FAGF EC C ||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART [2]. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune appears in Malcolm MacDonald's 1789 2nd Collection, dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane. Clementina was the daughter of Sir John Stewart, 4th Bart. of Grandtully, who also had several tunes composed in his honor. She married Alexander Moray, 14th of Abercairny. See also “Miss Stewart of Grantully [1].” Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 32. MacDonald (A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1789; pg. 5.

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Stewart’s Reel [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Second Collection of Strathspey Reels  (1789)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

D | G2 Bd gdBG | BdBG FAFD | G2 Bd gdBG | BdAF G2G :|

d | gdBG Bdgf | gbeg agfd | gdBd gdba | bagf “tr”g2 gf | gdBd cgec |

BdBG FAFD | gdBd cgec | BdAF G2G ||

 

MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART [3]. Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in Charles Duff's c. 1790 collection. Dance instructions for this piece, but not the music, appear in the Menzies Manuscript, 1749, in the Atholl Collection of the Sandeman Library, Perth. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 43. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 201. Maggie’s Music MMCD222, Bonnie Rideout – “Scottish Fire” (2000).

X:1

T:Miss Clementina Stewart [3]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, Vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

F|B2 d/c/B fBbf|g2 g/a/b fdcA|B2 d/b/B fBbf|cAFA G/G/G G:|

F|G/G/G BG dGBG|F/F/F AF cFAF|G/G/G BG dBBG|FDFA, G,/G,/G, G,F|

G/G/G BG dGBG|F/F/F AF cFAF|G/G/G BG dGBg|fdcA G/G/G G||

X:2

T:Miss Clementina Stewart [3]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

F|B2 d/c/B fBbf|g2 g/a/b fdcA|B2 d/c/B fBbf|cAFA G/G/G G:|

F|G/G/G BG dGBG|F/F/F AF cFAF|G/G/G BG dGBG|FDFA, G,/G,/G, G,F|

G/G/G BG dGBG|F/F/F AF cFAF|G/G/G BG dGBg|fdcA G/G/G G||

 

MISS COCHRAN MERCER.  Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune was printed by Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld in his 2nd Collection, dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane. MacDonald (A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1789; pg. 3.

X:1

T:Miss Cochran Mercer

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – 2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels (1789)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

c | (d/c/B/A/) FA defd | (B/c/d) AFD BEEc | (d/c/B/A/) (FA) defd | “tr”B2 AF AD D :|

g | fada fabg | (a/g/f/e/) df eEEg | fada dabg | fdce dDDg |

fada fabg | (a/g/f/e/) (df) eEEg | “tr”f2 df ceAc | Bg”tr”f>e dD D ||

 

MISS COLSTON. AKA and see "Miss Coulston."

 

MISS COOKE'S DELIGHT. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning. AABBCC. O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 366, pg. 177.

X:1

T:Miss Cooke’s Delight

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Hornpipe

S:O’Neill – O’Neill’s Irish Music (1915)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

G/D/G/B/ A/D/A/c/ | B/G/B/d/ g/f/e/d/ | e/f/g/f/ e/d/c/B/ | c/A/^G/A/ =G/F/E/D/ | G/D/G/d/ A/D/A/c/ |

B/G/B/d/ g/f/e/d/ | e/f/g/f/ e/d/c/B/ | c/A/G/F/ G2 :: d/^c/d/e/ d/=c/B/A/ | B/G/d/B/ g/d/b/B/ |

d/^c/d/e/ d/=c/B/G/ | c/A/^G/A/ =G/F/E/D/ | d/^c/d/e/ d/=c/B/A/ | B/G/d/B/ g/d/b/d/ | e/f/g/f/ e/d/c/B/ |

c/A/G/F/ G2 :: G g/f/ g/d/B/G/ | Dd/^c/ d/A/F/D/ | Gg/f/ g/d/B/G/ | c/A/^G/A/ =G/F/E/D/ |

Gg/f/ g/d/B/G/ | Dd/^c/ d/A/F/D/ | Gg/f/ g/d/B/G/ | c/A/G/F/ G2 :|

 

MISS CORBETT('S REEL). AKA and see "The New Demense [1]." Irish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB (Aird, Cole, O’Neill, Ryan): AAB (Kennedy). A variant of the “College Grove(s)” family of tunes. O’Neill prints the tune in his Waifs and Strays and gives his source as Aird's Selections 1782‑97. Aird (Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs), 1782 (appears as “Miss Corbett”). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 13. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 130, pg. 31. Lowe’s Collection. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 202. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 36.

X:1

T:Miss Corbett's Reel

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Aird's Selections 1782-97

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Reel

K:D

f|D/2D/2D FD ADFD|EcGc EcGc|D/2D/2D FD ADFD|BdAd FD D:|

g|fdag fddf|ecgf ecce|fdag fdec|dBAd FDDg|

fdag fddf|ecgf ecce|fdef fagb|afge fd d||

 

MISS COULSTON. AKA - "Miss Colston." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor (Athole, Gow): A Mixolydian/Dorian (Athole). Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Niel Gow (1727-1807), renowned Scots fiddler-composer. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 142. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pg. 31. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pgs. 36 & 187.

X:1

T:Miss Colston

M:C

L:1/8

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

R:Strathspey

K:A

d|c/d/e A>e c<e a>e|=g>de>g B/c/d =Gd|c>eA>e c<e a>e|=g>d e/d/c/B/ c<AA:|

a|e<a a>=g eaaf|=g<b e>g B<=G B/c/d/B/|e<a a>=g eaag|e>a g/a/b/g/ a<A A>a|

e<a a>=g e<a a>f|=g<b e>g B<=G d>B|c/d/e a>e c<e a>e|=g>d e/d/c/B/ =c<AA||

X:2

T:Miss Colston

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

c|B/c/d G>d B<d g>d|f<c d>B A/B/c/A/ F>c|B<dG<d B<dg<d|f>c d/c/B/A/ B<GG:|

|:g|d>gb>g d>gb>g|f>ac>f A>F A/B/c/A/|1 d>gb>g d>gb>g|d>g ^f/g/a/f/ g<GG:|2

B/c/d G>d B<dg<d|f>c d/c/B/A/ B<GG||

 

MISS COX [1] (Iníon Uí Choiligh). Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. A version of “The Railroad [4]” (An Bóthar Iarainn). Another version is “Rose Mary.” Source for notated version: Jack Wade (County Monaghan) c. 1960's collection [Breathnach]. Breathnach (CRÉ IV), 1996; No. 128, pg. 64. 

 


MISS COXE [2]. AKA – “Miss Cox.” Scottish, "Slowish" Strathspey. E Flat Major. Standard tuning. AB. The tune is attributed by Nathaniel Gow to Scots musician and dancing master Duncan McIntyre (born c. 1765). McIntyre taught Scottish dancing from his residence at 22 Great Marlborough Street, London, towards the end of the 18th century and published in that city a collection of Scottish tunes in 1796 (A Collection of Slow Airs, Reels and Strathspeys). He reportedly journeyed to India around the year 1806 as master of ceremonies to the governor general’s court, but there his trail ends. His cause and date of death is unknown. Gow (1809) gives credit to “Mr. MacIntyre” in the Fifth Collection (1809). Hunter (1979), however, gives composer credit to "Mrs. McIntyre," and says she was one of the many dilettantes‑‑'Ladies resident in the Highlands of Scotland'‑‑who contributed to the Gow collections. I believe Hunter is in error, although there were several female composers represented in the Gow collections. Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 40, pg. 63 (appears as "Miss Coxe's Strathspey"). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 143. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; pg. 22. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 184. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 270.

X:1

T:Miss Coxe’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

N:”Slowly”

B:Gow – Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1809)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Eb

(B/4c/4d/)|e>EC>E B,>EG,>E|B,>E (A/G/).F/.E/ DFF (B/4c/4d/)|e>EC>E B,>EG,>E|(D/E/F) B,>A GEE (B/4c/4d/)|

e>EC>E B,>EG,>E|B,>E (A/G/).F/.E/ DFFG/A/|B>GEe cAFc|B<GF>A G<E[G,E]||(B/4c/4d/)|

e>Be<g e>cBG|A>F (A/G/).F/.E/ .D<F~F>A|(G/A/B) E>e (d/e/f) (B<a)|g<bf>a gee>a|

g>edf {d}e>cBG|A<FB>E D(FF)G/A/|G<E B,>_D ~C2 A,>c|B<G “tr”F>A G<E[G,E]||

 

MISS CRAWFORD [1] (Ingean Ui Crauford). Irish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903/1979; No. 1197, pg. 225. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 474, pg. 91.

X:1

T:Miss Crawford [1]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 474

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

Dc|BGFG DGFG|AF (3FFF AFcF|BG^FG DGFG|cAfA Gcdc|

BG^FG DGFG|AF (3FFF AFcF|BG^FG DGFG|cAfA G2G2||

Ggg^f gag=f|dfcf ec(3cBA|Ggg^f gag=f|cAfA G2G2|(3gab (3fga gafg|

dfcf ec (3cBA|(3BAG (3cBA (3Bcd (3e^fg|(3fed (3cBA G2||

 

MISS CRAWFORD'S REEL [2]. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composition credited to A. McAlpin by Kerr. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 21, No. 4, pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Crawford’s Reel [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 1, pg. 15  (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

E|A2 (GA) FAEA|FAEA cefa|eAfA gAaA|BcBA AGFE|A2 (GA) FAEA|

FAEA cefa|ecfa ecaf|ecdB A2A2||agab agfe|dcde fedc|BEcE dEcE|

BcBA AGFE|agab agfe|dcde fedc|Bcde fgaf|eagb (a2a)||

 

MISS CRAWFORD'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composition credited to A. McAlpin by Kerr. It is played as a Highland in County Donegal. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 21, No. 3, pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Crawford’s (Strathspey)

M:4/4

L:1/8

R:Highland

N:The tune appears in Kerr’s as “Miss Crawford’s Strathspey” credited to A. McAlpin

S:Tommy Peoples – Workshop 7/19/01

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

A2 {c/d/} c>A e>ce>a | A>B {c/d/}c>A B<E G>B | A2 {c/d/}c>A e>ce>a | (3gfe (3dcB (3AcB (3AFE |

A2 {c/d/}c>A e>ce>a | A>B {c/d/}c>A B<E G>B | A2 {c/d/}c>A e>ce>=g | f>ag>b a3 ||

A | a>Ac’>A d’>Ac’>A | a>Ac’>A {b/c’/}b>a b<c’ | a>Ac’>A d’>Ac’>A | (3ded (3cdc ~B2 A2 |

a>Ac’>A d’>Ac’>A | a>Ac’>A {b/c’/}b>a b<c’ | (3Ace (3ecA (3Adf (3fdA | g>eb>g a>f e/c/B || A4 ||

 

MISS CROFTON. Irish, Planxty. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AABB. This MS melody is a variant of "Lady Iveagh" and is often attributed to Turlough O'Carolan, on the assumption it is written in his style. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 25, pg. 38.

 

MISS CRUIKSHANK'S REEL (--GLASS). See "Cuir Sa’ Chiste Mhoir Mi," “Miss Hopkin’s (Reel),” "Old Time Wedding Reel [3]" and "Put Me in the Big Chest." AKA ‑ Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833) and appearing under this title in his 1822 collection. The parish of Glass is in the Deveron river valley, west of Huntly. Marshall’s grand-daughter Mary married into the Cruickshank family and the title may refer to an in-law of hers. The melody earlier appears in Marshall’s A Collection of Strathspey Reels, p. 11, (1781) as "Miss Hopkins Reel". See also “Primrose Girl [1],” “The Rose in the Garden [1].” MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 137. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 12.

X:1

T:Miss Cruickshank's Reel

T:Miss Hopkins Reel (1781)

T:Cuir sa Chiste Mhoir Mi

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – Skye Collection (1887)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

FGBd {d}e2 (eg)|fdcB cBGB|FGBd {d}e2 (eg)|fdcd B/B/B B2:|

(gab)a (gf)ed|cBcd BGGf|(gab)a (gf)ed|cBcd B/B/B B2|gaba gfed|

cBcd BGGB|FGBc defg|fdcd B/B/B B2||

 


MISS CUMMING'S STRATHSPEY. AKA and see "Lord John Campbell [1]." Scottish, Strathspey. The tune is the composition of Scottish expatriote dancing master Duncan MacIntyre, and was the original of Gow's "Lord John Campbell's Strathspey". MacIntyre taught dance in London and spent some years in India. He died about 1806.

 

MISS D. BRIDGES REEL.  See “Mr. D. Bridges Reel.”

 

MISS DALE. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by "S.D.S.". MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 180.

X:1

T:Miss Dale

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – Skye Collection (1887)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

a|e<c c>B A>FF>A|E>FA>c d2 d>f|e>cc>B A<F F>c|e>cc>B A<F F>A|

E>FA>c d2 d>f|(3fga (3edc (3def (3edc|a>f f/e/d/c B2B||f|e>ca>c e>ca>c|

f/e/d/c/ ac e2 (ef)|e>ca>c e>ca>A|(3fga (3edc B2 B<f|e>ca>c f/e/d/c/ a>c|

e>ca>e f2 fg|(3agf (3edc (3def (3efg|(3agf (3edc (3Bbg (3agf||

 

MISS DALLAS('S REEL). AKA and see "The Marquis of Huntly's Snuff Mill" (Gow), "The Royal Gift." Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The title is William Marshall's (1748-1833). There is a controversy over who composed the tune, Marshall or Niel Gow, though Alburger (1983) seems to side with Gow in this case, while John Glen (1895) thinks Gow lifted if from Marshall. Emmerson (1971) also believes the circumstances point to plagerism of Marshall's tune by Gow, who altered the key (G to F major) and a few notes. It was published by Gow in his Fourth Collection of 1800 under the Marquis title, but had been previously published by Marshall as "Miss Dallas" in his First Collection of 1781. While Miss Dallas is unknown, there is an old manor house of Dallas in Scotland dating from 1683, and a small village of Dallas in Moray, in the upper valley of the river Lossie (for which the city of Dallas, Texas, is named). Cowie (1999) reports the surname Dallas is particular to the Elgin, Scotland, area. Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 69, pg. 107 (appears transposed to F Major). Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 8.

X:1

T:Miss Dallas

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

D>GG>B A>G E2|D>G G<B A>G A<B|c<AB<G c/B/A/G/ E2|D>G B<g A<B G2:|

|:d>gg>b a>g e2|d>g g<b a<bg<a|e<gd<B c/B/A/G/ E2|D>G B<g A<B G2:|

                       

MISS DALTON’S. AKA and see “Miss Thornton’s {Reel}.” Philippe Varlet finds the “Miss Dalton” title for “Miss Thornton” only on one 78 RPM recording by an accordion player named Eddie Herborn, released in 1916.

                       

MISS DALY'S 'JIG'. American, Dance Tune (cut time). A Minor ('A' part), C Major ('B' part) & F major ('C' part). The word 'jig' in the title here refers to a type of syncopated 19th century old-time banjo tune rather than the familiar Irish jig in 6/8 time; it may have been derived from a derogatory term for African‑Americans, or may be descriptive of the movements. Standard. ABCC. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 84. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 116.

X:1

T:Miss Daly’s Jig

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Clog dance tune

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

(e>.d) | (c<A) zc (B<E)zB | (A>.B)(c>.d) (e<a) (e>.d) | (c<A)zc (B<E)ze | (d>.c)(B>.c) A2 (e>.d) |

(c<A) zc (B<E)zB | (A>.B)c>d (e<a) e>d | (c<A)zc (B<E)ze | d>cB>c A2z || G | (G>.G)(A>.B) (c<e)zc |

(d>.d)(c>.d) (e<c)zA | (G>.G)(A>.B) (c<e)ze | (d>.c)(B>.d) c2 zG | G>GA>B (c<e)zc |

d>dc>d (e<c) zA | G>GA>B (c<e)ze | d>cB>d c2 z ||

K:F

c |: (c>.a)(g>.f) (fc)zc | (c>.a)(g>.f) (fc)zc | c>cd>e ({g}f>ef>g | a>c’b>a (gd)zd | d>ba>g (gd)zd |

d>ba>g (gd)zd | c>=Bc>d e>fg>a |1 f>ag>f e>dc>=B :|2 f2a2f2 ||

 

MISS DALY'S REEL. AKA and see "Athens," “Blodgett’s Reel,” "The Clogher Reel," "The Dublin Reel," "The Dublin Lasses [3]," "Jackson's Reel [2]," "The Shuffle Reel," "The Twelve Locks," "The Twister," "The Union Reel [1]," "Victor Wild," "The Westmeath Hunt." American, Reel. G Major ('A' part) & D Major ('B' part). Standard tuning. AB. The first part of the tune is shared with “The Dublin Reel.” Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 47. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 75.

X:1

T:Miss Daly’s Reel

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

g/(3B/4c/4B/4A/B/ g/B/a/B/ | g/(3b/4c/4B/4/A/B/ d/B/A/B/ | g/(3B/4c/4B/4A/B/ g/B/a/B/ | e/g/f/e/ d/e/f/a/ |

g/(3B/4c/4B/4A/B/ g/B/a/B/ | g/(3b/4c/4B/4/A/B/ d/B/A/B/ | g/(3B/4c/4B/4A/B/ g/B/a/B/ | e/g/f/e/ d/e/f/g/ ||

af/d/ (A/d/).f/.d/ | (e/d/).f/.d/ (e/d/).f/.d/ | af/d/ (A/d/).f/.d/ | (e/g/).f/.e/ (d/e/).f/.g/ |

 af/d/ (A/d/).f/.d/ | (e/d/).f/.d/ (e/d/).f/.d/ | a/f/g/e/ f/d/e/^c/ | d/^c/d/^d/ e/^e/f/a/ ||

 

MISS DALRYMPLE. Scottish, Jig. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (pg. 7). Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music) vol. 1, 1891; pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Dalrymple

M:6/8

L:1/8

S:Glen Collection, Vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

d | B>cB FDF | B3 F2B | c2d e2d | cdc ABc | B>cB FDF |

GEF ABc | Fed cBA | B3 B,2 :: B | FBd fdB | Ace gec | dBf eca |

Bfe dec | B>dB FDF | BFD Cce | dfB edc | B3 B,2 :|

 

MISS DAVIDSON. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning. AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 279. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pg. 2. Jones [Ed.] (Complete Tutor Violin), c. 1815; pg. 3. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 219.

X:1

T:Miss Davidson

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

c|~f2 af ffaf|~f2 af gddg|~f2 af gfaf|gefd cAA:|

|:c|AFcF A2 Fc|dfcA AGGc|1 AFcF A2 Fc|dfcf AFF:|2  AFcF dF cf|egce fFF||

X:2

T:Miss Davidson's Reel.

M:C|

L:1/8

B:Complete Tutor Violin  (c. 1815)

Z:Dr. Evan Jones, 2005

K:F

U:T=!trill!

a | f2 (a>f) f<fa>f | f2 (a>f) gddg | f2 (af) g>fa>f | g>ef>d c>A F :|| c | AFcF TA2 (Fc) | dfTd>f BGGc |

AFcF TA2 (Fc) | (de/f/) (ce) fFFc | AFcA TA2 (Fc) dfTc>A BGAc | AFcF a>fg>e | f>dc>f AFF |]

 

MISS DAWES’S DELIGHT.  English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 52.

X:1

T:Miss Dawes’s Delight

M:2/4

L:1/8

B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773)

Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock, 2007

Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

G>B d>B|”tr”g3e|d>B A>G|A>AA>A|G>B d>B|”tr”g3e|d>cB>A|G4:|
|:D>F A>F|”tr”d3f|ed^cB|”tr”A3 G|FD cA|”tr”B>d g2|e>cB>A|G4:||

 

MISS DAWSON'S DELIGHT. English, Reel. England, Northumberland. A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody is unique to Northumbrian musician William Vicker’s 1770 country dance manuscript collection. The title may refer to the famous stage dancer Nancy Dawson (see note for “Nancy Dawson [1]” for more information. Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 3; No. 479.

 

MISS DAWSON'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Nancy Dawson [1]."

                       


MISS DEJERSEY'S MEMORIAL. English, Country Dance Tune. Composed by collector Pat Shuldham‑Shaw. Flying Fish FF90564, Bare Necessities ‑ "Take a Dance" (1991).

                       

MISS DEANIE MONROE. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. D Major. Standard tuning. AA’BB’. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; pg. 56.

                       

MISS DILLON’S WALTZ. English, Waltz. D Major/G Major. Standard tuning. AABBCC. The tune is contained in the 19th century Joseph Kershaw Manuscript. Kershaw was a fiddle player who lived in the remote area of Slackcote, Saddleworth, North West England, who compiled his manuscript from 1820 onwards, according to Jamie Knowles. The Joseph Kershaw Manuscript, 1993; No. 49a&b (two versions, each in a different key).

                       

MISS DINWIDDIE. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (pg. 78).

                       

MISS DOLLAND'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "The Bishop [1]." English, Country Dance Tune (cut time or 2/2). A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune sometimes is called “The Bishop,” a confusion due to the melody being paired with a dance called The Bishop (in the Apted book, for example). Published before 1730. Fleming‑Williams & Shaw (English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1), 1965; pg. 13. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 30. F&W Records 4, "The Canterbury Country Orchestra Meets the F&W String Band."

                       

MISS DONALDSON'S STRATHSPEY--OF BANFF. Scottish, Strathspey ("Slowly when not danced"). E Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). One of the Donaldson girls of Kinnairdy Castle, Banff, daughters of Thomas Donaldson of a merchant family (Moyra Cowie, The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999). The castle is near the river Deveron and still exists in good repair today. See also “Miss Young.” Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 25.

X:1

T:Miss Donaldson’s Strathspey—Banff

M:C

L:1/8

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Eb

G(BB)G A(cc)e|B>G (A/G/)(F/E/) D(FF)A|G(BB)G A(cc)a|(a/g/)(f/e/) Bd e2E2:|

B,EGB egbE|DFBd g/f/e/d/ e/d/c/B/|e>f e/d/c/B/ c/B/A/G/ A/G/F/E/|

A>G c/B/A/G/ A/G/F/E/ DB,|G,EGB egbE|DFBd g/f/e/d/ e/d/c/B/|

e>f e/d/c/B/ c/B/A/G/ A/G/F/E/|B,>F E/D/C/B,/ E2 E2||

 

MISS DOUGLAS [1]. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance in print of a tune with this name in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 55). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 182.

X:1

T:Miss Douglas

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

d2 B>c d<GB<G|E<c A>G F<D DB/c/|d2 B<g d<GB<G|E<AD<F G2G2:||

d<g g>f e<a a>g|f<de<f g>a g<G|d<g g>f e<a a>g|f<de<f g/g/g g>a|

b<ga<f g<ef<d|e<cd<B A>B c<e|d2 B<g d<GB<G|E<c B/A/G/F/ G2G2||

 

MISS DOUGLAS [2] (Ingean Ni Dubglas). Irish, Double Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB'. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 346, pg. 72.

X:1

T:Miss Douglas [2]

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 346

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

g|f2d edc|d2B AGF|GAB dAF|GEE E2g|f2d edc|d2B AGF|

GAB dAG|FDD D2:||:g|afd ded|gfg a2f|g2a baf|gee efg|1 afd ded|

gfg a2f|g2a bag|fdd d2:|2 f2d e2c|d2B AGF|GAB dAG|FDD D2||

 

MISS DOUGLAS [3].  Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AB. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 119.

X:1

T:Miss Douglas [3]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Surenne – Dance Music of Scotland, pg. 119  (1852)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

f | d2 Af d2 Ad | cdef gfge | fdcd AdFd | Egfe fddf | d2 Af d2 Ad |

cdef gfge | fdcd AdFd | Egfe fdd || f | defg abaf | gfed ceef | defg abaf |

geag fddf | defg abaf | gefd ceeg | fdcd AdFd | Egfe fdd ||

 

MISS DOUGLAS MONCRIEFF. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Robert 'Red Rob' Mackintosh. Source for notated version: Douglas Lawrence (Scotland) [Hunter]. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 203.

 

MISS DOUGLAS OF BRIGTON. AKA and see "Lady Harriot Hay," "Brechin Castle." Scottish, Reel or Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The melody was published under this title in Malcolm McDonald's 1792 3rd Collection, dedicated to Miss Drummond of Perth. The melody underwent some title changes: first by Robert Petrie in his 1796 collection (“Lady Harriot Hay”), then by Nathaniel Gow in 1799 (“Brechin Castle”). MacDonald (A Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1792; pg. 4. Skinner (Harp and Claymore), 1904; pg. 126.

X:1

T:Miss Douglas of Brigton’s

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – 3rd Collection of Strathspey Reels (c. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

F | B/B/B “tr”B2 Bdfd | B/B/B “tr”B2 AcAF | B/B/B “tr”B2 Bdfd | (3ege (3dfd ceAF :|

|: fB (e/d/c/B/) fBeg | fB (e/d/c/B/) ceAF | fB (e/d/c/B/) fBdf | (3ege (3dfd ceAF :|

X:2

T:Miss Douglas of Brighton

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Skinner – Harp and Claymore (1904)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

B<B ~B2 B>df>d | B<B ~B2 c>B A<F | B<B ~B2 B>df>d | e<g d<f ({c/d/}c>)B A<F :|

|: fB e/d/c/B/ fBeg | fB e/d/c/B/ A/B/c/B/ AF | f>B e/d/c/B/ fBdf | eg df c>B A<F :|

 

MISS DOUGLAS OF SPRINGWOOD PARK. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 128.

X:1

T:Miss Douglas of Springwood Park

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

G|D>EG>A B<G G>B | D>EF>A ~B2 B>g | D>EG>A B<G G>B | A>B c/B/A/G/ ~E2E :|

B | d>ed>B g>dB>G | d<ed<B B<d d>g | d>ed>B g>dB>G | A>B c/B/A/G/ ~E2 E>B |

d>ed>B g>dB>G | d>ed>B B<d d>g | g<be<g d<gB<g | A>B c/B/A/G/ ~E2 E>G ||

 

MISS DOVE’S MINUET.  American (?), Minuet. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. From the music manuscript copybook of Henry Livingston, Jr.  Livingston purchased the estate of Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1771 at the age of 23. In 1775 he was a Major in the 3rd New York Regiment, which participated in Montgomery’s invasion of Canada in a failed attempt to wrest Montreal from British control. An important land-owner in the Hudson Valley, and a member of the powerful Livingston family, Henry was also a surveyor and real estate speculator, an illustrator and map-maker, and a Justice of the Peace for Dutchess County. He was also a poet and musician, and presumably a dancer, as he was elected a Manager for the New York Assembly’s dancing season of 1774-1775, along with his 3rd cousin, John Jay, later U.S. Chief Justice of Governor of New York.

X:1

T:Miss Dove’s Minuet

M:3/4

L:1/8

S:Henry Livingston’s manuscript copybook, late 18th century

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

(3Bcd G2G2 | (3FGA D2D2 | (3Bcd G2g2 | g2 “tr”f4 | gdBdGB | cAceae |

fdfad’c’ | b2a4 | bgafge | (3fga AedA | Bgfed^c | d6 :: d^cdefg | afed^cB |

^cdefgB | B2”tr”A4|(3Bcd G2G2 | (3FGA D2D2|(3Bcd G2g | g2f4 |

(3gab (af)(ed) | (ef)(gd)(cB) | (ec)(BA)(GF) | G6:|

                          

MISS DOWNIE'S STRATHSPEY. AKA and see "Honest Duncan," "Garden Shiel." Scottish, Strathspey. Composed by Duncan MacIntyre, an expatriate Scots dancing master in London who published the tune in 1795. As "Honest Duncan" it was published by Gow in Repository, Part Second (1802), and  it was called "Garden Shiel" by the musician and collector Robert Petrie.

 


MISS DOWNING'S FANCY (Roga Ingean Ni Dounaig). Irish, Double Jig. E Minor. Standard tuning. AA'BB'. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 333, pg. 69.

X:1

T:Miss Downing’s Fancy

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 333

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

E2F GFG|AGA B2e|E2F GFG|AFD FGA|E2F GFG|AGA Bcd|

edB cBA|1 BAG FED:|2 BGE E2||

|:e2f gfe|dBd e3|Bee Bee|fdB def|e2f gfe|dBd e2f|

gfe dBG|1 AGA BGE:|2 BAG FED||

 

MISS DRUMMOND MEGGINSH’S STRATHSPEY. See “Miss Drummond of Megginch.”

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF DRUMTOCHTY’S.  Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AABB’CCDD. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). Drumtochty is a castellated Neo-Gothic mansion in Kincardineshire, Scotland, built in 1813 for George Harley Drummond (1783-1855), member of a well-known banking family of Charing Cross, London. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) painted his portrait, the subject in riding costume alongside his horse. He married in 1801 to Margaret, daughter of Alexander Munro. The couple had two boys and a girl, also named Margaret. The melody may have been a later addition (as were a few other tunes in the 2nd edition of the Fourth Collection), and perhaps Gow composed the tune for the child Margaret, who would have been aged 10 at the time of the opening of her parents grand new home. Another possibility is that “Miss Drummond of Drumtochty” refers to George’s sister, Henrietta-Martha (b. 1781), who would have been aged 19 in 1800, the date of the publication of the first edition of the Fourth Collection. She married in 1803 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pg. 37.

X:1

T:Miss Drummond of Drumtochty’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

C:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831)

B:Gow – Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1800)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

B|(A/B/c) (.c.c) f<”tr”a a2 {fg}|{a}gefd {d}c>AGB|(A/B/c) cc f<a “tr”a2 {ga}|g>ef>c {B}A2 A:||

G|FcAc FdBd|c<A{A}f>d {d}c>AGA|1 FcAc d>efa|g<ef>c {B}A2A:|2 E>Gac d>efg|a/g/f/e/ {e}f>c {B}A2A||

|:B|(A/B/c) (d/c/B/A/) “tr”d>efg|{fg}a>gfd {d}c>AGB|(A/B/c) (d/c/B/A/) “tr”B>cde|”tr”f>gac {B}A2A:|

|:A/B/|c<Fd<F c<F f>d|cF {d}cB/A/ “tr”G>ABc|cF {d}cB/A/ c<A”tr”f>g|a/g/f/e/ fc {B}A2A:|

                          

MISS DRUMMOND OF KELTIE. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in John Bowie's 1789 collection. See note for "Miss Drummond's Favorite" for information on that clan. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music) vol. 1, 1891; pg. 39.

X:1

T:Miss Drummond of Keltie

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

d|B2 (FD) FDdc|BGFD GCCd|B2 (FD) FGBg|fdce dBB:|

g|fBgB fBbg|fB (dc/B/) G(cc)g|fB (dc/B/) fdbg|fdcB F(BB)g|

fBgB fBbg|fB (dc/B/) G(cc)d|BGFD FGBg|fdce dBB||

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF LOGIEALMOND. Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Shepherd. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 47.

X:1

T:Miss Drummond of Logiealmond

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

E/F/|G>E G/F/E/^D/ E>BB>F|G>B d>B F/A/c/B/ A/F/D/F/|G>E G/F/E/^D/ EB Be/f/|g>e f/b/B/^d/ eEE:|

B|e>f gf/e/ Be/^d/ eB|e>f gf/e/ d/f/b/a/ g/f/e/^d/|e>f gf/e/ Be/^d/ ec|BB, B/A/G/F/ GEEB|

e>f gf/e/ Be/^d/ e>B|e>f gf/e/ d/f/b/a/ g/f/e/^d/|b>ga>f g>eB>G|A/B/c/A/ B/e/^d/f/ eEE||

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF MEGGINCH. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Credited to John Bowie in Malcolm MacDonald’s 3rd Collection, dedicated to Miss Drummond of Perth. MacDonald (A Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1792; pg. 5. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 155.

X:1

T:Miss Drummond of Megginch

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

e | c<GA<G c<GA<G | E<G c>E D>dd>e | c<GA<G C<G c>a | g<c g>f e<cc :|

e/f/ | g<ce<c g<ca<c | g<c ed/c/ B<d de/f/ | g<ce<c g<ca<c |

G<c ed/c/ G<c ce/f/ | g<ce<c g<ca<c | g<c ed/c/ B<d d>e |

c<G AG/F/ E<G c>a | g<c g>f e<cc ||

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T:Miss Drummond Megginsh’s Strathspey

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L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – 3rd Collection of Strathspey Reels (c. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

e | c<GA<G c<G”tr”A<G | E<G c>E Ddd>e | c<GA<G cGca | g<c g>f ecc :|

e/f/ | g<ce<c g<ca<c | g<c {f}ed/c/ B<dde/f/ | g<ce<c g<ca<c | G<c {f}(ed/c/) Gc cd/e/ |

g<ce<c g<ca<c | gc {f}(ed/c/) B<dd<e | c<G {B}(AG/F/) E<G c>a | g<c g>f ecc ||

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF PERTH [1]. AKA and see “Calum Crubach,”  Devil in the Kitchen [1],” “Devil Shake the Half-Breed [2],” “Gurren’s Castle,” “Highland Fling [2],” "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth [1],” “Mountain Reel [4],” “Our Highland Cousins,” "The Prince of Wales Jig,” “The Sinking of the Titanic,” “The Titanic Highland,” “Yorkshire Bite [1].” Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Irish, Highland. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. Ireland, County Donegal. A Minor (most versions): A Mixolydian (Perlman, Plain Brown). Standard tuning. AB (Athole, Cole, Skye, Surenne): AAB (Gow, Jones, Kerr, Honeyman, Hunter, Plain Brown): AABB’ (Perlman). The composition was claimed by Neil Gow (1727-1807) and appears in his Third Collection, second edition, 1801. However, it has also been alleged to be the work of Malcolm MacDonald, who published it in 1789 (Collection, vol. 2, pg. 1) as "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth" (Alburger/Emmerson/Glen). There is a direct connection between Gow and MacDonald, for MacDonald was a professional musician from Gow’s home town of Inver, Perthshire, and often accompanied Gow on the cello when the latter played for dances. In County Donegal, Ireland, a derivation of the tune is known in the form of a Highland and is called “The Titanic Highland” or “The Sinking of the Titanic.” See note for "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth [1]” for more. Sources for notated versions: George MacPhee (b. 1941, Monticello, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; a c. 1847 music manuscript by Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England [Plain Brown Tune Book]. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 144. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 125. Gow (3rd Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pg. 16. Honeyman, 1898; pg. 23. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 68. Jones [ed.] (Complete Tutor Violin), c. 1815; pg. 2. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; Set 6, No. 1, pg. 6. Lowe (A Collection of Reels and Strathspeys), 1844. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 115. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 195. Plain Brown Tune Book, 1997; pg. 46 (appears as an untitled strathspey). Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 164. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 44. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pgs. 28-29. CAT-WMR004, Wendy MacIssac - “The ‘Reel’ Thing” (1994). Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert (Cape Breton, N.S.)- “In Jig Time” (1995). Culburnie Records CUL 102, Alasdair Fraser & Jody Stecher – “The Driven Bow” (1988). “Melodeon Greats” (1978).

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T:Miss Drummond of Perth [1]

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L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

a|AAe>d ~B>d e2|d<gB<g d<gB<G|Aae>d ~B<d e>a|g>eg>B A2 A>a|

Aae>d ~B>d e2|d<g B>g d<g B>G|Aae>d ~B>de>a|g>eg>B A2A||

^g|a2 e>a c<a e>^f|~g2 d>g B>g d>g|a2 e>a c>ae>a|g>eg>B A2 A>^g|

a2 e>a c>ae>^f|~g2 d>g B>gd>g|aae>a bbe>g|a>eg>B A/B/c/d/ e>a||

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T:Miss Drummond of Perth's Strathspey [1]

R:strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

B:Complete Tutor Violin  (c. 1815)

Z:Dr. Evan Jones, 2005

K:C

U:T=!trill!

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a | A<Ae>d B<d e2 | d<gB<g  d<gBG | A<Ae>d B<de>(g | a)>eg>B {B}A2 A :||

g | a<ae<a c<a e2 | g<gdg B<g Td2 | a<ae<a c<ae>g | a>eg>B {B} A2 Ag |

a<ae<a c<ae>^f | g<gd<g B<gd<g | a<ae<a g<be<(g | a)>eg>B {B} A2 A |]

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF PERTH [2]. Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AAB. Composition credited to Niel Gow in the Gow publications. It appeared in Malcolm MacDonald’s 3rd Collection, dedicated to herself, Miss Drummond of Perth. MacDonald was, for a time, a cello player with Niel Gow’s band, according to John Glen. It was also printed in John and Andrew Gow’s A Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels (London, c. 1795). Andrew (1760-1803) and younger brother John (1764-1826) established a publishing business in London in 1788 and were the English distributors for the Gow family musical publications. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 280. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 27. MacDonald (A Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1792; pg. 1.

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T:Miss Drummond of Perth’s Reel [2]

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L:1/8

R:Reel

S:MacDonald – 3rd Collection of Strathspey Reels (c. 1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amix

f | eAcA c/d/e “tr”g2 | dBGB (Bdd)g | eAcA c/d/e “tr”f2 | eAcA c(ee) :|

B | Aaec eaec | (d/c/B/A/) BG BddB | Aaec eaec | (a/^g/f/e/) aA c(ee)B |

Aaec eaec | (d/c/B/A/) BG Bddf | eAcA c/d/e “tr”f2 | eAcA (cee) ||

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF PERTH [3]. Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AABB. No relation to either of the previous two versions. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 1, 1991; pg. 50.

 

MISS DRUMMOND OF PERTH’S FAVORITE SCOTCH MEASURE. Scottish, Scotch Measure. G Minor. Standard tuning. AABBCCDD. The melody appears in Malcolm McDonald’s 4th collection, dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pg. 2.

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T:Miss Drummond of Perth’s Favorite Scots Measure

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L:1/8

R:Scotch Measure

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

GA | B2 AB G2 GA | B2 Bc d2 cB | A2f2F2G2 | ABcF D2 GA | B2 AB G^FGA |

BABc d2 (=e^f) | g2d2 (=ed)(cB) | “tr”(A4G2) :: ga | b2a2g2 (^f/g/a) | g2d2d2=e2 |

f3g fgaB | cBAG F2 (GA) | BABG cBcA | dcd=e fefd | g2d2 _edcB | “tr”A4G2 :|

|: D/E/^F | G^FGA BABc | dcBA GABG | AcFc AGAF | fgac ABcA | G^FGA BABc |

dcBA GABG | ABcA d2 cB | “tr”A4G2 :: g^f | gdgd gdgd | B2 AB G2 d=e |

fcfc fcfc | A2 GA F2 ga | b2 ag a2 g^f | g2 ab d2 cB | c2g2G2 g^f | g4 G2 :|

 

MISS DRUMMOND'S FAVORITE. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. E Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. Neil (1991) relates that the Drummonds were a famous Perth family, though originally the clan was from a Stirlingshire place called Drymen (from which the name Drummond is thought to have derived). In 1360 a clan feud with the Monteiths displaced them and they moved into Perthshire where they acquired considerable land and possessions over the years. Fervert Jacobites, a regiment raised by Lord John fought at Culloden in 1745, where another Drummond lord died on the field. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 105, pg. 141.

 

MISS DUFF OF FETTERESSO’S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld’s 4th collection, dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pgs. 6-7.

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T:Miss Duff of Fetteresso’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

A, | (D/E/F/G/ A>)d F<D D>E | (=C/D/E/F/ G>)c E<C C>E | (D/E/F/G/ A>)d F<D D>F |

E>^C E/F/G/E/ FDD :| g | f<d f/g/a/g/ f<d d>f | e>=c e/f/g/f/ e<c c>e | f>d f/g/a/g/ f<d d>f |

a>b a/b/a/g/ f<ddg | f>d f/g/a/g/ f<d d>f | e>=c e/f/g/f/ e<c c>e | a>fg>e f>de>c | B/c/d/B/ A/B/A/G/ FDD ||

 

MISS DUFF'S FANCY. AKA and see "Miss Graham of Inchbrakie."

 

MISS DUMBRECK. Scottish, Reel. A Major (Skye, Surenne): B Flat Major (Athole, Honeyman, Hunter, Skye). Standard tuning. One part (Hunter): AB (Athole, Surenne): AAB (Honeyman): AA'B (Skye). The melody was first published in the Gow’s Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels (Ediburgh, 1822, page 29), without attribution to any composer. Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; pg. 29. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; pg. 28. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 271. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 16 & 127 (two versions). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 287. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 49. Culburnie CUL118D, Alasdair Fraser & Paul MachLis – “Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, vol. 1” (2001). Brandon Vance & Mark Minkler – “Beyond the Borders” (2004).

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T:Miss Dumbreck

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

f|edcB ~B2 df|gfdf gabf|edcB ~B2 dB|cAFA cdef|edcB ~B2 df|

gfdf gfga|b2 b>f edcB|AFcA dFcF||~B2 df bfdf|bfdf bfdB|~F2 Ac fg=eg|

fg=eg fcAF|~B2 df bfdf|bfdf bfdB|GeFd EcDB|FGAB cde||

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T:Miss Dumbreck

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Surenne – Dance Music of Scotland, pg. 49  (1852)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

e | edBA A2 ce | fece fgae | dcBA A2 cA | BGEG Bcde | dcBA A2 ce |

fece fgae | agae dcBA | GEBG dBGB || A2 ce aece | aece aecA |

E2 GB ef^df | ef^df e=dcB | A2 ce aece | aece aecA | FdEc DBCA | EFGA Bcde ||

 

MISS DUNBAR.  Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Coleman Music Center CHC 009, fiddlers Jim Rawl & Jimmy McKiernan – “The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place” (2005. Various artists). Drumlin Records, MacNamara Family – “Leitrim’s Hidden Treasure” (1999).

X:1

T:Miss Dunbar

M:4/4

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Treoir – vol. 33, No. 4

K:G

G3e dGBG|dGBG AGEF|GFGe dGBd|gabg ag g2:|

|:dega bagd|eBdB AGEG|dega bagd|(3gab age g g2:|

 

MISS DUNKANSON’S JIGG.  Scottish, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, composer and musician Robert Petrie, the tune was published in his Second Collection, dedicated to Mrs. Garden of Troup. Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances),

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T:Miss Dunkanson's Jigg

C:R. Petrie

S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/11/04

N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 24

L:1/8

M:6/8

R:Jig

K:D

f|e2A c2A|c/d/ed c2A| dBG GBd|gdB G2f|e2A c2A|c/d/ed c2A|ece eca |ecA A2:|

B|ABA aeg|fdf edc|(B/c/dB) G2B|gdB G2B|AcA aeg|fdf    edc|BcB a^ga|ecA A2B|

AcA aeg|fdf edc|(B/c/d)B G2B|gdB G2f|e2A c2A|c/d/ed c2A|ece a^ga|ecA A2|]

 

MISS DUNDAS('S REEL). Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 14). Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 18.
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T:Miss Dundas’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1   (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gmin

d|G/G/G (dc) (d2 d)g|f(dc>A) FGAF|G/G/G (BG) B (d2 f)|AfcA G3:|

f|g(ag>f) dfga|f(dc>A) FcAf|gag>f dfag|f(dc>A) G3f|g(ag>f) dfga|

(f/d/c) (d/c/A) cdfa|gafg dfcf|AfcA G3||

 

MISS DUNDAS OF ARNISTON. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). The title may refer to a daughter of Robert Dundas (1753-1819) of Arniston, a Scottish judge and politician. He served a term as an MP from Midlothian (1790-1796), was a Solicitor General and Lord Advocate, and was Baron Exchequer for Scotland from 1801 until his death. The elder of his daughters was Ann(e) Dundas (1791-1833), who married John Borthwick of Crookston (1788-1845). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 281. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 19. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 119. Smiddymade SMD615, Pete Clark – Even Now: The Music of Niel Gow.”

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T:Miss Dundas of Arniston

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

A|F<D A>F E<=C C>E|FDAD BDAD|dDAF E=CCE|DdAF D2D:|

g|fdad e=cce|fdad bdad|fdad e=cce|fdec d2dg|

fdad e=cce|fdge afbg|adfa g=ceg|f/g/a ef d2d||

 

MISS DUNLOP. Scottish. Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Joshua Campbell's collection (pg. 9).

 

MISS DUNPHY'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see "Dunphy's Hornpipe."

 

MISS DWYER’S REEL. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 132, p. 32.

 

MISS E. ELDER. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody appears in Robert Petrie's c. 1790 1st collection. Glen (Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 40. Petrie (Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), c. 1790; p. 4.

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T:Miss E. Elder

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1   (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

D|B,2 BF GBFD|E(GFD) C(cce)|dBAc BGFD|DCF>E DB,B,:|

a|bfdB fBdB|FB dc/B/ A(cce)|dbfd Bdfd|ecfe dBBa|bfdB fBdB|

ecdB A(ccE)|DFBd EGce|dfec dBB||

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T:Miss E. Elders

C:Robert Petrie

S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/5/04

N:Petrie's First Collection, page 4

L:1/8

M:C|

R:Reel

K:Bb

D | B,2 BF GBFD | .E(GFD) Cc-ce | dBAc BGFD | ECTF>E DB,B, :|

a | bfdB fBdB| FB {e}dc/B/ Ac-ce | dbfd Bdfd | ecfe dBBa |

bfdB fBdB | ecdB Ac-cE | DFBd EGce | dfec dBB |]

 

MISS E. ELPHINSTONE'S. Scottish, Strathspey. Composed by Scots dancing master Duncan MacIntyre, and expatriate who taught dancing in London. He lived for a time in India, probably serving as a Master of Ceremonies for the Governor‑General's Court, and died about 1806.

 

MISS E. MACLEOD. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Robert ‘Red Rob’ MacIntosh and first printed in his 4th collection of tunes (London, 1803). Paul Stewart Cranford (1995) notes that Winston ‘Scotty’ Fitzgerald popularized the tune among Cape Breton fiddlers. Cranford (Jerry Holland’s), 1995; No. 11, p. 4.

 

MISS EDMONDSTON. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 41). Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 15.

 

MISS EDMONDSTONE OF NEWTON. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was composed by William Shepherd. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 11.

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T:Miss Edmondstone of Newton

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2   (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

F|D>FA>F d>FA>F|A>d g/f/e/d/ ceef|D>FA>F d>FA>F|E>g f/g/a/g/ fdd:|

f/g/|a>df>d a>d b/a/g/f/|A>d g/f/e/d/ ce ef/g/|a>df>d a>dA>F|G>B A/G/F/E/ Dd df/g/|

a>df>d a>d b/a/g/f/|A>d g/f/e/d/ ce ef/g/|a>fd>A Bc/d/ AF|G>B e/f/g/e/ fdd||

 

MISS ELANOR STEWART. Scottish, Reel or March. A & M Records 79602 2000-2, Ashley MacIsaac - “Close to the Floor” (1992).

 

MISS ELDER [1]. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford): AAB (Glen). The melody appears in Robert Petrie's c. 1790 1st collection.  Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 143, p. 58. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 58. Petrie (Collection of Strathspey Reels and County Dances), 1790; p. 22.

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T:Miss Elder [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel
S:Glen Collection, vol. 1   (1891)
Z:AK/
Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

B|E/E/E BE GEBE|GEBG FDDF|E/E/E BE GEeB|cABF GEE:|

B|efga bgfe|defg afdf|efga bgfe|Bbfa geef|efga bgfe|defg afdf|

bgaf gef^d|ecBA GEE||

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T:Miss Elders Reel

C:Robert Petrie

S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/20/04

N:Petrie's First Collection, page 22

L:1/8

M:C

R:Reel

K:Em

B | E/E/E BE GEBE | GEBG F(DD)F | E/E/E BE GEeB | cABF GEE :|

B | efga b(gTfe) | defg afdf | efga  b(gTfe) | Bbfa geef |

efga b(gTfe) | defg afdf  |bgaf  gef^d |.e(cTBA) GEE |]

 

MISS ELDERS [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune appears in Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld’s 2nd Collection, dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane. MacDonald (A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1789; pg. 12.

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T:Miss Elders [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – 2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels (1789)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

[A,EA>]B c>A e<Ac<A | f>e d/c/B/A/ {A/B/}”tr”d>B(Bc) | [A,EA>]B d/c/B/A/ e>A “tr”c2 |

a/g/f/e/ c/e/a/e/ cA A2 :| (e/f/g) | a/g/f/e/ c<A e<A “tr”c2 | “tr”f>e d/c/B/A/ {B/c/}cBBg |

a>A d/c/B/A/ e<A c>A | (a/g/)f/e/ (c/e/)a/e/ (cAA)(f/g/) | a<Ac<A e>A d/c/B/A/ |

[A,EA>]f d/c/B/A/ {A/B/}c>BBc | A<E B>E c<Ed<E | (a/g/f/e/) (f/g/a)e/ cA A ||

 

MISS ELEANORA HAMILTON. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in John Riddell's 1782 collection (pg. 52).

 

MISS ELENORA ROBERTSON. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Robert Mackintosh. Hunter, 1988; No. 272. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 285.

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T:Miss Elenora Robertson

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection   (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddlers’ Companion

K:Bb

F|B2 dB AcAF|B2 dB Acfe|dbfd ecAF|GBAc dB~B:|

F|DB,DF EGcB|AFAc fdBF|DB,DF EGcB|AcFe dB~BF|

DB,DF EGcB|AFAc dBdf|gbge dfdB|AcFA BB,B,||

 

MISS ELEANORA ROBERTSON'S FAVOURITE. Scottish, Jig. C Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 3rd ed., 1792; pg. 32.

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T:Miss Eleanora Robertson’s Favorite

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

B:Gow – Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1792)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Cmin

G,|Ccc “tr”c2G|”tr”E2F ({E/F/}G)FE|DBB “tr”B2F|(D/E/F)E DCB,|Ccc “tr”c2G|

“tr”E2F G2g|{f}edc {e}dc=B|cCC C2:||c|G(cd) (ed).c|(gc).c (ed).c|(FB).B (df)”tr”=a|

(bf).d (fd).B|G(cd) edc|gec efg|(fa).g {g}fed|ecc “tr”c2e|(Gc).c (ec).c|(gc).c (ec).c|

FB.d .f(=ab)|(fg).e {e}dcB|{d}c>de {e}d>ef|(.e.f.g) (.f.g.a)|{a}gfe {g}fed|ecc “tr”c2||

 

MISS ELEANOR KER. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in John Riddell's 1782 collection (pg. 50).

 

MISS ELIZA FORSYTH. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by John Morison. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 14.

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T:Miss Eliza Forsyth

M:C

L:1/8

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

g|dB GA/B/ AFAB|cedB GABg|dB GA/B/ AFAB|cedB G2 Gg|dB GA/B/ AFAB|

cedB GABg|dBGD EFGA|BA/G/ AG/F/ G2G||d|gage dBGg|edeg abaf|gage dBGB|

ce d/c/B/A/ G2 Gd|gage dBGg|edeg abag|ba/g/ ag/f/ gf/e/ dB|cedB G [B,G]||

 


MISS ELLIOT. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection (pg. 63) and Robert MacIntosh's 1783 collection (pg. 33).

 

MISS ELPHENSTONE [1]. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 22, pg. 5.

X:1

T:Miss Elphenstone [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Kerr – Merry Melodies, vol. 3, No. 22  (c. 1880’s)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

f|d2 dA F2 dA|e2 ed (ce)ea|fded d2 (AG)|Fdea fdd:|

f|afdf bagf|gagf efgb|afdf a2 (gf)|gbag fddf|afdf bagf|

gagf efga|gfed c2 (BA)|Bdea fdd||

 

MISS ELPHINSTONE [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 407. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; pg. 23.

X:1

T:Miss Elphinstone(‘s Strathspey) [2]

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Gow – 3rd Repsoitory  (1806)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

c|{G}A2 EF/G/ A/G/F/E/ F>C|D<F E>C B,BB>d|(3cde (3ABc (3def B>A| (3GAB E>d cAA:|

f/g/|(a/g/f/e/) ca db ca|Aaca B/B/B B>g|(a/g/f/e/) ca dbca|Fd Be cAA f/g/|

(a/g/f/e/) ca df ca|Aaca f/e/d/c/ B/c/d/f/|e/d/c/B/ A>E F<A D>f|e<c a>c A/A/A A||

 

MISS EMILY.  Jig. Shanachie 34014, James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien & Daithi Sproule – “Traditional Music of Ireland” (1995).

 

MISS ERSKINE OF ALVA. Scottish, Reel. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (pg. 4). Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4 ,1817; pg. 36. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 32.

X:1

T:Miss Erskine of Alva

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection   (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

a|{f}e2A2 cee=g|fd=gd B=GGf|{f}e2A2 cee=g|fd=gf e2A:|

g|aefd cee=g|fd=gd B=GGg|aefd cAec|d=gBd e2Ag|

aefd ceAc|dB=gd Bd=GB|Acea gace|d=gBd e2A||

                       

MISS ERSKINE OF BARJARG. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in John Riddell's 1783 collection (pg. 53).

                       

MISS ERSKINE OF TORRY [1]. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AABBCCD (Skye) AABBCCDD' (Athole). Composition credited to Perthshire fiddler-compser Neil Gow (1727-1807), although his name does not appear with the tune in the Gow’s 2nd Collection (1788). The title may refer to Frances Erskine (born before 1773, died 1798), the daughter of Sir William Erskine, Bart., who married Lt. General Willimam Weymss (1760-1822) in 1788 (see “General Wemyss”), the same year the Gows published their Second Collection. See “Winston in the 50's” for a Cape Breton reel setting of this tune. Gow (Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1788; pg. 19 (3rd edition). MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 139. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 232. David Greenberg & Doug MacPhee – “Tunes Until Dawn.” Jerry Holland – “The Fiddlesticks Collection.”

X:1

T:Miss Erskine of Torry [1]

L:1/8

M:C

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection  (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

c|A>F F/F/F C>FA,>F|G>_EB,>E G<E ~E>c|A>F F/F/F C>FA,>F|B>G E/F/G/E/ A<FF:|

|:f|c>f f/f/f c>fA>f|c>f f/f/f g<_e e>g|c>f f/f/f c>fA>f|B>G E/F/G/E/ A>FF:|

|:c|A>Fc>F d>Fc>f|G>_EB,E G<E E>c|A>Fc>F d>Fc>F|B>G E/F/G/E/ A<FF:|

|:c|f>ga>g c>fa>f|f>ga>g g<_e e>g|1 a>ga>f c>fa>f|b>g e/f/g/e/ a<ff:|2 b>ga>f g>ef>c|B>G E/F/G/E/ A<FF||

 

MISS ERSKINE OF TORRY [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by J. Walker. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 2, 1895; pg. 43.

X:1

T:Miss Erskine of Torry [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collecton, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

B|c<A A>B c<A A>c|B<d d>c BGGB|c>Ad>B e>cd>B|e/d/c/B/ e>B cAA:|

^g|a>ee>d c>AA>c|B>gdg bGG^g|a>ee>d c>Aa>g|f/e/d/c/ B/c/d/B/ cAA^g|

a>ee>d c>AA>c|B>gd>g BGGB|(3ABc (3Bcd (3cde (3def)|e>a^g>b aAA||

 

MISS ESTER OSWALD OF AUCHINCRUIVE’S NEW STRATHSPEY.  Scottish, Strathspey. The title perhaps refers to Mary-Hester Oswald, daughter of Richard Alexander Oswald and Lucy Johnson Oswald (“that incomparable beauty” of Robert Burns’ passionate verse). Mary-Hester married in 1818. Inver225, Pete Clark – “Macintosh at Murthly.”

 

MISS EUPHEMIA LOWE'S JIG. Scottish, Jig. C Major. Standard tuning. AABB’. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) suggests Euphemia may have been a daughter of Joseph Lowe, who published collections of Scottish music. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 44.

X:1

T:Miss Euphemia Lowe’s Jig

L:1/8

M:6/8

S:Marshall – 1822 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

C3 C2c|B/c/dB c3|~c3 C2E|A,DC B,A,G,|C3 C2c|B/c/dB c2G|cBA GFE|

A,AC B,A,G,:|e2c cBc|GAB ~c3|e2c cBc|Adc BAG|1 e2c cBc|GAB c2G|

cBA GFE|A,DC B,A,G,:|2 efg def|edc dcB|cBA GFE|A,DC B,A,G,||     

                       

MISS EVERILDA FRASER. Scottish, March (whole time). A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), perhaps in honor of Everilda Fraser (d. 1840), daughter of Sir John Fraser, a career army officer. She married, in 1839, Francis Rawdon Chesney (1789-1872), himself a career army officer and explorer from Ireland who was famous for navigating a land route to the East, via the Euphrates River. Unfortunatley, she apparently only survived her wedding by a year. Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; pg. 4.

X:1

T:Miss Everilda Fraser

M:C

L:1/8

R:March

C:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1822)

B:Gow – Sixth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels  (1822)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

E|{CE}A2 A>C {DF}B2 B>A|{GB}e2 e>d d2 c2|{Ac}e2 e>c {Ad}f2 f>e|{e}d>c {c}B>A {A}G>F E/D/(C/B,/)|

(CE}A2 A>C {DF}B2 B>A|{GB}e2 e>d d2 c2|{c}a2 a>c {de}f2 f>d|{d}c>B {B}A>G A2 A,||E|

{Eac}e2 e>C D{g}f/^e/ f2|{FB}d2 (d/c/)”tr”B/A/ G{f}e/^d/ e>=d|(cA) AG F2 f>e|{e}d>c {c}B>A A/G/B/A/ G/F/E/D/|

{CE}A2 A>C {DF}B2 B>A|{GB}e2 e>d d2c2|{cd}a2 a>c {Ad}f2 f>d|{d}c>B {B}A>G {G}A2 A,||

                          

MISS EWING. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (pg. 67).

                       

MISS FAHEY'S FANCY (Roga Ingean Uí Faitce). Irish, Reel. D Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning. AB. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907/1986; No. 800, pg. 138.

X:1

T:Miss Fahey’s Fancy

M:C|

L:1/8
R:Reel

S:O’Neill – Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907), No. 800

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

AG|FDDC A,2 FG|A=cBG cBAG|AFDE F2 EF|DdcA G2 AG|FDDC (3A,B,C DG|

ABcA dcde|(3fed (3edc dcAB|=cAGF G2||FG|Adde fdec|ABcA dcAG|

Adde fgec|ABcA d2 fg|(3agf (3gfe fdef|dcAB cAGE|Dddc Adeg|fd=cA G2||

                       

MISS FALCONER. Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB (Gatherer, Shears): AABB' (Kerr). Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 4. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 152, pg. 18. Lowe, Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs (1844‑45). Shears (Gathering of the Clans Collection), 1986; pg. 63.

X:1

T:Miss Falconer

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

K:Ador

|: A>BA>B c2 cd | BGdG eGdG | AGAB c2 cd | BGdB c>AA>B :|

|: A>aa>g a>e c<A | G>gg>f g>d B<G | A>a a>g a>ed>f | e>cd>B c>AA>B |

A>aa>g a>e c<A | G>gg>f g>d B<G | AcBd cedf | e>cd>B c<A A2 ||

                       

MISS FARGIHARSON’S REEL.  See “Miss Farquharson’s Reel.”

 

MISS FARGHERSON'S NEW REEL. AKA and see "The Scotch Bonnet," "The Tap Room," "Lord Edward," "Scotch Maggie," "The Ladies Tight Dress," "Granshaw Glens," "Roll out eh Barrel," "The Rakes of Abbey," "The Blossom of the New Tree," "Fitzgerald's Reel," "A Short Way to Heaven," "Bhaintreach na Radaireacht."

                       


MISS FARQUHARSON OF BALDOVIE. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in Charles Duff's c. 1790 collection. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; pg. 35.

X:1

T:Miss Farquharson of Baldovie

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Glen Collection, vol. 1 (1891)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

F|E<G c>G E<G G>c|E<G c>G A<D D>F|E<G c>G E<G G>g|f>d e/f/g/f/ e<cc:|

e/f/|g<ca<c g<cce/f/|g<ca<c f>dde/f/|g<ca<c g>c e<g|f>d e/f/g/f/ e<cce/f/|

g<ca<c g>cce/f/|g<ca<c f<d d>e|g>c’e>g d/c/d/e/ f>d|e<a g>f e<cc||

                       

MISS FARQUHARSON OF INVERCAULD. AKA and see "Lady Louisa Gordon's Reel," "Miss McLeod's Fancy." Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AB (Marshall): AABB (Hunter). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), who first called it "Lady Louisa Gordon('s Strathspey)." Gow reprinted it, without composer credit until the Sixth Collection, as "Miss McLeod's Fancy," but it finally reappeared in Marshall's posthumously published collection under the title above. The celebrated stage dancer, Madam Hillsburgh, danced to the melody in the early 19th century.

***

Miss Farquharson was a daughter of Archibald Farquharson, a Whig politician who represented Seafield and Kintore in the general election of 1829, records Moyra Cowie, in her book The Life and Times of William Marshall (1999). The Farquharson’s acquired their estate from the Gordons in 1749, and the family still owns Braemar Castle.

***

Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 162. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection, pg. 6. Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1796; pg. 7.

X:1

T:Miss Farquharson of Invercauld [1]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:Marshall – 1845 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

F|C<F F>G A>GA>F|D<GGA B2 A>c|d>f c<f A>F G<A|C>FE>G F2FF|

C<F F>G A>BA>F|D<GGA B2 A>c|d>f c<f A>F G<A|C>FE>G F2F||

(e|f>)c f<a f>cfa|f>c f<a g2 (ga)|f<c c>A f>ba>g|f<d c>A G2 (G>g)|

f<c c<a fcc(a|f)cfa g2 (ga)|f>c c<G f>ba>g|f<d c>A G2G||

X:2

T:Miss Farquharson (of Invercauld's) Strathspey [1]

C:"By Mr. Marshall"

S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/5/04

N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 7

L:1/8

M:C

R:Strathspey

K:F

F|C<FF>G A>GA<F|D<GG>A B>AB<c|d<fc>A G>FG<A|CFEG F3:|

c|f<cc>A f>cf<a|f<cf>a g>fg<a|f<cc<A f>ba<g|f<dTc>A G3g|

f<cc<A f>cf<a|f<cf>a Tg>(fg<a)|f<cc<A f>ba>g|f<dc<A  G>FG<A|]

 

MISS FARQUHARSON OF INVERCAULD(‘S STRATHSPEY) [2].  Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Niel Gow (1727-1807). Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; pg. 28.

X:1

T:Miss Farquharson of Invercauld’s Strathspey [2]

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

C:Niel Gow (1727-1807)

B:Gow – Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1822)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Bb

g/a/|bBfB A(cc)g/a/|bBfB bBfd|e>c dB A(cc)g/a/|bBfB F(BB) g/a/|bBfB Acc g/a/|

bBfB bBfd|ecdB A(cc) B/A/|B>F G>E DB,B,||B|FB/c/ dB A(cc>)d|FB/c/ dB fBdB|

FB/c/ dB A(cc) B/A/|B<F G>E DB,B,B|(FB).d.B A(cc>)d|(FB)d>B fBdB|bB dB A(cc) g/a/|b<f g>e dBB||

                       

MISS FARQUERSON OF INVERCALD’S JIG.  Scottish, Jig. C Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. The melody appears in the Perthshire collections of Robert Petrie of Kirkmichael, the 4th collection of Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld. Petrie’s collection is dedicated to Mrs. Farquharson of Monaltrie (Monaltrie being another branch of the Farquharson family), while MacDonald’s volume is dedicated to the Countess of Breadalbane. John Farquharson of Invercauld avoided becoming involved in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rising of 1745, having learned his lesson in the Jacobite rising of 1715, although his daughter “Colonel Anne” was quite supportive of the Prince, as were other branches of the family. When John died in 1750 the inheritance passed to his son James (a Captain of foot in the Hanoverian army), and when he died in 1805 his only surviving child (of eleven children born, including three other girls, Amelia, Fanny and Matilda), Catherine Farquharson (1774-1854), was recognized as the Chief of the clan in 1806. She in 1799 had married Captain James Ross, Royal Navy (the second son of the famous admiral, Sir Charles Lockhart Ross), and when James died Ross then adopted the surname of Farquharson, thus continuing the line. MacDonald (A Fourth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1797; pg. 13. Petrie (Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances), 1790; pg. 14.

X:1

T:Miss Farquerson of Invercald’s Jigg

M:6/8

L:1/8

R:Jig

S:MacDonald – 4th Collection of Strathspey Reels (1797)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Cmin

C2c c2G | BGB FDB, | D2c c2G | cde edc | C2c c2G | BGB FDB, | E3 FEF |

GEC C2 :| g2c cde | dcB fdB | g”tr”fg cdc | gaf gec | g2c cde | dcB fdB | efg fed |

ecc c2f | g2c cde | dcB fdB | g”tr”fg cdc | gag gec | gbg fge | dfb fdB | EFG DEF | GEC C3 ||

X:2

T:Miss Farquharson of Invercauld's Jigg

C:Robert Petrie

S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/19/04

N:Petrie's First Collection, page 14

L:1/8

M:6/8

R:Jig

K:Cm

C2c c2G | BGB FDB, | C2c c2G | cde edc | C2c c2G | BGB FDB, | E3 TFEF | GEC C3 :|

g2c cde | dcB fdB |Tgfg cdc | gaf gec | g2c cde | dcB fdB | efg fed | ecc c2f |

g2c cde | dcB fdB | Tgfg cdc | gaf gec | gbg fge | dfb fdB | EFG DEF | GEC C3 |]

 

MISS FARQUHARSON OF MONALTRIE’S DELIGHT.  Scottish, Strathspey. C Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Robert Petrie, of Kirkmichael, Perthshire, dedicated his first collection to Mrs. Farquharson of Monaltrie, whose daughter is presumably the subject of the title of this tune. The principle branches of the Farquharson family were of Inverey, Invercauld and Monaltrie. Petrie (Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances), 1790; pg. 1.

X:1

T:Mrs. Farquharson of Monaltrie's Delight

C:Robert Petrie

S:Petrie's Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c., 1790

Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 3/5/04

N:Petrie's First Collection, page 1

L:1/8

M:C

K:Eb

"^Slow"

E | ~C>ECG, C(cGE) | B,(D/E/) FD .B.F.D.B, | ~C>ECG, C(ecG) | F(G/A/) (G/F/)(E/D/) .ECC :|

c/d/|(e/d/)c (Gc)  (Ec) (Gc) | B/c/d/e/ (fd) (bf) {e}(d{c}B) | (e/d/)c (Gc)  (Ec) (Gc) | =B<aTg>f ecTc>d |

(e/d/)c (G>c) (E>c)(G>c) | (B/c/d/e/) (fd) (bf){e}(d{c}B) | (Tg>e)(Tf>d) (Te>c)(Td>=B) | cA /F/)(E/D/) ECC ||

"^Var:"

E | ~C>E (=B,/<C/)G, C=B/<c/ (^F/<G/)(D/<E/) | (=A,/<B,/)(D/<E/) (G/<F/)(E/<D/) (=A/<B/)(=E/<F/) (^C/<D/)(=A,/<B,/)|

~C>E (=B,/<C/)G, C(d/<e/) (B/<c/)(^F/<G/) | (=E/<F/)(G/<A/) (TG/>F/)(T_E/>D/) ECC :|

c/d/|{f}e(d/<c/) G/c/(Tc/=B/4c/4) E/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4) G/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4)|

(B/c/d/e/) (g/<f/)(e/<d/) (=a/<b/)(=e/<f/) (^c/<d/)(=A/<B/) | (f/<e/)(d/<c/) G/c/ Tc/(=B/4c/4) E/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4) G/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4) |

(.=B/.d/.f/.a/    .g/.f/.e/.d/)   ecTc>d | (f/<e/)(d/<c/) G/c/(Tc/=B/4c/4) E/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4)  G/c/ (Tc/=B/4c/4) |

(.B/.c/.d/.e/  .g/.f/.e/.d/ .b/.=a/.g/.f/ .e/.d/.c/.B/) | (.a/.g/.f/.e/ .g/.f/.e/.d/  .f/.e/.d/.c/ .e/.d/.c/=B/) | Tc/=B/c/A/ TG/F/TE/D/ ECCz |]

 

MISS FARQUHARSON'S REEL. AKA and see "My Love is/She's But a Lassie Yet [1]." Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The tune was used by Robert Burns for his song "My luve, she's but a lassie yet" (however, the "Ettrick Shepherd," James Hogg, also wrote a song with that title), by which title the tune is now known. It first appeared in Robert Bremner's Scots Reels of 1757 (pg. 19). The melody appears in England in the third volume of the Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, published in London by Charles and Sameul Thompson. As with numerous other tune from the Thompson’s collection, it was entered into the 1788 music manuscript collection of fiddlers John and William Pitt Turner (Norwich, Conn.). “Miss Fargiharson’s Reel” was employed by Samuel Arnold for his two-act “pastoral entertainment” Auld Robin Gray (1794), which had music (“with a Scottish overture selected and composed”) by Dr. Arnold. It was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Hay-Market in 1794, and a vocal score with ballads indicated was published in London by Preston & Sons. Country dance directions for “Miss Farquharson’s” appear in English periodicals dating to the end of the 18th century. Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773; No. 130.

X:1

T:Miss Fargiharson’s [sic] Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

B:Thompson’s Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3 (London, 1773)

Z:Transcribed and edited by Flynn Titford-Mock, 2007

Z:abc’s:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

B/c/|dDFD d(D D)B/c/|dDFD B(E E)B/c/|dDFD dgfe|(d/c/B/A/) Bc dD D:|
|:f/g/|afge f(d d)f/g/|afgf e(E E)f/g/|afge fdec|(d/c/B/A/) Bc dD ~D:||

                       

MISS FARR’S REEL. Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AAB. O’Neill (1922) remarks: “It may be remarked that (source) Mr. Dunne was a farmer of the townland of Kilbraugh not far from Thurles, Tipperary. From his wonderful repertory of dance tunes, generously contributed some years ago, many have been selected.” Source for notated version: the Patrick Dunne manuscript [O’Neill]. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 245.

X:1

T:Miss Farr's Reel

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Pat. Dunne, manuscript

Z:Paul Kinder

R:Reel

K:G

Aced cAec|Acec dBGB|Aced cAed|BEEF GABG:||

ea a2 caea|Bg g2 dgBg|ea a2 caec|BEEF GABG|

ea a2 caea|Bg g2 dgBg|afge fdec|BEEF GABG||

                       

MISS FAW'S MINUET. AKA and see "She's Sweetest When She's Naked [1]." Scottish, Minuet. A Minor. Standard tuning. AABB. This minuet, appearing in the Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768), was apparantly fashioned out of the earlier and faster "She's Sweetest When She's Naked," published by Oswald in his Curious Collection (pg. 35). Source for notated version: Gillespie MS., 1768, pg. 84 [Johnson]. Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 61, pg. 153.

X:1

T:Miss Faw’s Minuet

M:3/4

L:1/8

R:Minuet

S:Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

A2 (e2e2) |  edcd e2 | A2 (c2c2) | GEDE G2 | A2 (c2c2) | dcdega |

“tr”e3 dcd | e2 A4 :: A2 (d2d2) | “tr”d4 c2 | e2 (g2g2) | g4 a2 |

 gedega | gedegd | e2 (a2a2) | “tr”a4 g2 | e2 (ge)dc | d2e2g2 |

B2 (cB)AG | E2(G2G2) | A2 (c2c2) | dcdega | “tr”e3 dcd | e2 A4 :|

                       

MISS FENNING. Irish. The tune was recorded by the Belfast Northern Star of July, 15, 1792, as having been played by one of ten Irish harp masters at the last great convocation of ancient Irish harpers, the Belfast Harp Festival, held that week.

                       

MISS FERGUSON OF KILKERRAN. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in John Riddell's 1783 collection (pg. 40).

                       

MISS FERGUSON OF RAITH'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. G Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB. The tune was first published (without composer credit) in MacDonald's Second Collection, reprinted in 1797, but was thought by some to have been composed by Niel Gow. Niel’s son Nathaniel claimed the composition for his father. Malcolm MacDonald was Nathaniel Gow's bass player at the time he published his collection and probably heard Gow play the melody; he perhaps did not know who wrote it. John Glen (1895), on the other hand, accuses the Gows of outright plagiarism in many instances, and sheds doubt on the veracity of Nathaniel's claim. MacDonald (A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1789; pg. 9.

X:1

T:Miss Ferguson of Raith’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

S:MacDonald – 2nd Collection of Strathspey Reels (1789)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gdor

c | BdGd Bdgd | fcdB A/B/c/A/ Fc | BdGd Bdgd | fc d/c/B/A/ BG G :|

d | gbdg G(g/a/ b)g | facf F(f/g/ a)f | gbdg Gb/a/ bg | gc d/c/B/A/ BGGd |

gbdg Gg/a/ bg | f>acf FA/B/ cA | B>dGd B>dgd | f>c d/c/B/A/ BG G ||

                       

MISS FERRY'S HORNPIPE. AKA and see “Coey’s Hornpipe,” “The Southern Shore,” "The Wonder Hornpipe."


                       

MISS FETHERSTON. AKA and see "Carolan's Devotion" (Brabhadh Cearbhallain), "O'Carolan's Devotion [2]." Irish, Air or Planxty (3/4 time, "animated"). G Minor (O'Neill): G Dorian (Complete Collection). Standard tuning. AAB.  Composed by the blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan, most likely in 1720 or 1721 (though Bunting gives dates of "about 1700" and, elsewhere, 1690). Walker (in "Irish Bards"), on authority of Charles O'Connor, relates the tale of the composition of the tune. It seems that a Miss Fetherston, of County Longford, chanced upon O'Carolan one Sunday on the way to Mass and, knowing of his fame and admiring his music, she introduced herself and invited him to visit her house. He promised to do so, and while at Mass, "instead of praying for Miss Fetherston as she requested, he neglected his religious duties to compose a song for her." It was the only time O'Carolan wrote words in English, "an act of poetic gallantry, as the young lady did not understand Irish."  O'Sullivan (1983) thinks it probable that Miss Fetherston was a sister of Thomas Fetherston of Ardagh, near Edgeworthstown, County Longford, who married about 1709.

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In an interesting aside O'Sullivan relates that the young Oliver Goldsmith visited the town of Ardagh and inquired as to the whereabouts of the local inn. A practical joker gave him directions of Squire Fetherston's house (probably a brother or nephew of O'Carolan's Miss Fetherston, says O'Sullivan), where he comported himself as if he were at an inn, ordering dinner and magnanimously inviting the Squire and his daughter to join him at his table. "It was this incident that suggested the plot of 'She Stoops to Conquer.'"

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Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 48, pg. 50. Neale, Celebrated Irish Tunes; pg. 22. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 228. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 631, pg. 112. O’Neill (1913), pg. 74. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 73, pgs. 114-116.

X:1

T:Miss Fetherston

T:Carolan’s Devotion

M:3/4

L:1/8

S:Bunting

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Gdor

f/g/a|b2 a/g/f f/g/a|gf ed d/e/f|dc BA GF|F4 GA|B2 Bd cB|c2 df gd|cB AG GA|G4:|

G/F/E|D2G2G2|G>A G>F EF|D2F2F2|F>G F>E DF|D2 B2B2|Bc AB GA|

F2 f2 fg|f4 f/g/a|b2 ba ga|b2d2d2|d>c B>c d>e|f2A2A2|B>A G>A B>c|

D2G2 F>GA|GF ED DE|D4 c/d/e|f2f2 f/g/a|gf ed d/e/f|dc BA GF|F4 F/G/A|

B2 Bd cB|c2 df gd|cB AG GA|G4||

                       

MISS FIN(D)LEY'S DELIGHT. AKA and see "New Rigged Ship [1]."

                       

MISS FISHER’S HORNPIPE.  English, Hornpipe. C Major. Standard tuning. AABB. Source for notated version: the 1823-26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778-1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds). Sumner (Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; pg. 59.

X:1

T:Miss Fisher’s Hornpipe

M:4/4

L:1/8

R:Hornpipe

S:Joshua Gibbons mss (1823-26)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

ed|cBcG AGFE|FGAF G2 ed|dBdA GBdf|e2c2c2:|

|:dc|Bcde f2 dB|cdef g2 ec|GABc defd|e2c2c2:|

 

MISS FLEMING OF KILLIECHASSIE. Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by "D. Mc. K." Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 15.

X:1

T:Miss Fleming of Killiechassie

M:C|

L:1/8

C:”D. Mc. K.”

S:Reel

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection   (1884)

K:A

A,2 A,C A2 Ac|ecAc BFFB|A,/A,/A, A,C ABce|fdBe cA A2|A,2 A,C A2 Ac|

ecAc BFFB|defg aefd|deBc A2A||cdaf ecAc|dbcA BFFB|cefa eaca|

BFFB A2 Ae|ceaf ecAc|dbcA BFFB|cefg aefd|caBg a2a2||

                       

MISS FLETCHERS MINUET. Scottish, Minuet. The melody appears in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth.

                       


MISS FLORA McDONALD'S REEL. AKA and see “Charlie’s Welcome,” “Charlie if you would only come,” “Thearlaich na’n Tigeadh Tu,” “Flora MacDonald.” “MacDonald’s Quickstep,” “MacDonald’s Reel [2],” “Miss Macdonald’s (Reel) [4].” Scottish, Reel. G Major (Athole): E Dorian (Bremner, Huntington, Johnson, Surenne). Standard tuning. AB (Surenne): AAB (Johnson): AABB (most versions). Scottish music indexer Charles Gore points out that the melody has appeared under numerous variants of the title, sometimes with the appellations ‘Lady’, ‘Miss’, sometimes beginning with ‘Flora’, and identified variously as a reel, rant, quickstep or strathspey. John Glen finds the earliest appearance of this Jacobite-era tune in print in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (pg. 21), as a two-part reel. It also appears in the Gow’s Complete Repository, vol. 1. See note for “Flora MacDonald’s Lament” and “Flora MacDonald’s Adieu...” for more information on Flora MacDonald, who famously helped Prince Charlie escape to the Continent after the Battle of Culloden. Cape Breton fiddlers often play the tune in four parts, the last two of which are attributed to the influential Domhnull Iain an Taillear Beaton (Donald Beaton the Tailor, 1856-1919). However, Paul Cranford points out that the fourth part is recognizably the second part of “Thearlaich na’n Tigeadh Tu,” a pipe tune in MacDonald’s Gesto Collection of Highland Music. Bremner, A Collection of Scots Reels, 1757; Section 3, pg. 21. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 1, 1799; pg. 16. Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. 11. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 38.  McGlashan, A Collection of Strathspeys, Reels..., pg. 29 (appears as "Miss McDonald's Reel"). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), pg. 247 (appears as "Flora McDonald"). Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 29. Rounder 82161-7032-2, Bill Lamey – “From Cape Breton to Boston and Back: Classic House Sessions of Traditional Cape Breton Music 1956-1977” (2000).

X:1

T:Miss Flora McDonald’s Reel

M:C

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Gow – 1st Repository   (1799)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Edor

F|E2 (E>F) BEEF|E2 E>F dFDF|E2 (E>F)  EFGA|(B/c/d) A>d FDD:|

F|E(ee)^d eEEF|E(ee)c dDDF|E(ee)d Bcde|(f/g/a) (ef) dDAF|

E(ee)^d eEEF|E(ee)c dDAF|E(ee)d Bcde|faef dDAF||

                       

MISS FLORENCE CAMPBELL. Canadian, Jig. Canada, Cape Breton. B Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by Cape Breton fiddler and composer Dan R. MacDonald (1911-1976). Cameron (Trip to Windsor), 1994; pg. 47.

                       

MISS FLYNN. AKA and see "The Top of the Morning [1]."

                       

MISS FOGO. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 90. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 173.

X:1

T:Miss Fogo

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

c|B2 GB dedc|B2 GB cAAd|B2GB dedc|Bdce dGG:|

|:f|~g2 dB ~g2dB|ggdB cAAf|~g2 dB ~g2ec|Bdce dGG:|

                       

MISS FORBES. AKA and see “Miss Horgan’s.” Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning. AB (Gow, Surenne): AAB (Athole): AABB' (Kerr). Attributed to “D.D.” (Daniel Dow?) by Gow in the 4th Collection. The name Forbes is derived from the Gaelic term forb-ais, meaning ‘at the land’. The clan’s original holdings were in Aberdeenshire, on the banks of the river Don. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 282. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pg. 7. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 89, pg. 12. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 69. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pg. 100.

X:1

T:Miss Forbes

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewat-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:C

F|EGGc AcGc|EGGE FDDF|EGGc Bcdf|ecgc Gcc:|

a|gcec gcfa|gcec Bdfa|gcac gcec|fdBg ecca|

gcec gcfa|gcec dfBg|ecBc Gcec|fdgd ec~c||

                       

MISS FORBES' FAREWELL. AKA and see "Miss Forbes' Far(e)well to Banff." Scottish, English; Reel or March. G Major. Standard tuning. AABB (Colclough, O’Farrell): AABB' (Kennedy, Raven): AA'B (Carlin). Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; No. 152, pg. 91. Colclough (Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes), c. 1830; pg. 14. Kennedy (Fiddler’s Tune Book), vol. 2, 1954; pg. 23. O’Farrell (Pocket Companion, vol. IV), c. 1810; pg. 133. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pg. 151.

X:1

T:Miss Forbes’ Farewell

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:Reel

K:G

(G/A/) | BB/d/ c/B/A/G/ | Bd e/f/g/e/ | dd/e/ d/B/A/G/ | BAA (G/A/) |

BB/d/ c/B/A/G/ | Bd e/f/g/e/ | dd/e/ d/B/G/A/ | BGG :: (3d/e/f/ |

g/f/g/a/ g/f/e/d/ | e/d/e/f/ gf/e/ | dd/e/ d/B/A/G/ |1 BAA (3d/e/f/ |

g/f/g/a/ g/f/e/d/ | e/d/e/f/ gf/e/ | dd/e/ d/B/G/A/ | BGG :|2 BAA (G/A/) |

BB/d/ c/B/A/G/ | Bd e/f/g/e/ dd/e/ | d/B/G/A/ BGG :|

 

MISS FORBES' FAREWELL TO BANFF. AKA and see “Bill Hall’s No. 2,” "Miss Forbes' Farewell." AKA ‑ "Miss Herries Forbes Farewell to Banff." Scottish (originally), English; Scottish Measure, March (2/4 time) or Country Dance (cut time). G Major (most versions): A Major (Morison): D Major (Howe): E Flat Major (Gow): E Major (Johnson/Cooper). Standard tuning. AB (Morison): AAB (Gow, Lerwick): AA’B (Howe): AABB (Athole, Kerr): AABB' (Skye): AABBA’A’BB (Johnson/Cooper). The most famous composition of Isaac Cooper (c. 1754‑1810/1811 or 1820), a talented musician, music teacher and dancing master of the coastal town of Banff in the Northeast (Scotland) who published several collections. It is considered "a good tune" by Collinson (1966), and cited by Glen (1895) as one of Cooper's best compositions. The melody first appears in Cooper’s Collection of Strathspeys, Reels and Irish Jigs for the Piano-Forte & Violin to which are added Scots, Irish & Welch Airs Composed and Selected by I. Cooper at Banff (London, Edinburgh, c. 1806). However, the tune was included one Perth manuscript collection dated earlier, from 1799 (see John Miller, below). The tune has been paired with Robert Burn's song "The Lass o' Ballochmyle," though he had no part in choosing it. Bruce Olsen finds “Miss Forbes Farewell to Banff,” song and (a version of the) tune, is in The Scots Musical Museum under the title "Farewell, ye fields &c." According to John Glen the song was written by an Edinburgh music seller named John Hamilton to Cooper’s melody.

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The melody appears in a number of British musicians’ manuscript collections from the late 18 and early 19th centuries. It appears in the manuscript of Perth fifer John Miller (1799, as “The 42nd Regmt. Farewell”), William Winter (West Bagborough, Somerset), Lionel Winship (1833, Wark Northumberland), Rev. Robert Harrison (1820, Brombton, Cumbria), and the Senhouse manuscript (Mayport, Cumbria). Yorkshire fiddler and concertina player Bill Hall, from an isolated Pennine community, had a version of the melody, now known as “Bill Hall’s No. 2.” Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; pg. 125. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; pg. 8. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 409, pg. 45. Lerwick (Kilted Fiddler), 1985; pg. 65. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 185. Morison (Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 1), c. 1880; No. 22, pg. 11. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 147.

X:1

T:Miss Forbes’ Farewell to Banff

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Country Dance

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection    (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:G

BA | B3d cBAG | B2d2 efge | d3e dBAG | B2A2A2GA | B2d2 cBAG |

B2d2 efge | d3e dBAG | B2G2G2 :: d | g3a gfed | edef g3b | d3e dBAG |

B2A2A2d2 | gfga gfed | edef g2fe | d3e dBAG | B2G2G2 :|

X:2

T:Miss Forbes’s Farewell to Banff

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:March

S:Morison – Highland Airs and Quicksteps, vol. 1 (c. 1880)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:A

{A/B/}c2 BA | {d}c/B/ c/e/ fa/f/ | e>f e/d/ B/A/ | cB BA/B/ | c>e d/c/ B/A/ |

{d}c/B/ c/e/ fa/f/ | e>f e/c/ B/A/ | cA A>e || a/g/ a/b/ a/g/ f/e | {g}f/e/ f/g/ a>f |

e>f e/c/ B/A/ | cB B>e | a/g/ a/b/ a/g/ f/e/ | {g}f/e/ f/g/ a>f | e>f e/c/ B/A/ | cA {B}A2 ||

X:3

T:42 Regmt Farewell. The,(etc).  JMP.067

T:Farewell to Edinbourghe, aba.  JMP.067

T:Miss Forbes Farewell.  JMP.067

M:C|

L:1/8

Q:160

C:”72…Miss Forbes Farewell.”..to Edinburgh

S:John Miller MS. Perth, 1799 (for the fife)

R:Misc.

O:Scotland

A:Perth

N:”to Edinbourghe” aka Bill Hall’s No. 2..’Miss Forbes Farewell’ written in

N:pencil in a

N:different writing

N:

N:”1” d and c written in pencil above the two G’s

H:1799

Z:vmp.C. Graebe

K:G

GA|(B3B/)d (cB) (AG)|.B2.d2.e2.g2|(d3d/)e dB(AG)|B2A2A2 GA|!

(B3B/)d (cB)(AG)|.B2.d2.e2.g2|(d3d/)e dB(GA)|B2 “1”G2G2:|!

|:de|(g3g/)a (gf)(ed)|(ed)(ef) g2e2|(d3d/)e dBAG|B2A2A2 de|!

(g3g/)a gfed|edef g2e2|(d3d/)e dB(GA)|B2 G2G2:|]

                       

MISS FORBES OF PITSLIGO. Scottish, Strathspey. F Major. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by John Gow (1764-1826), the youngest son of fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). John was a partner in the family’s London branch (est. 1788) of the publishing firm, along with his brother Andrew. In addition to their own publications they distributed their brother Nathaniel’s work from the Edinburgh publishing house. The title refers to a daughter of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (1739-1806), 6th Bart., a banker and benefactor who obtained his lands in 1781, and his wife Eilizabeth Hay, whom he married in 1770. Sir William was a Grandmaster of the masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland, and a founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The couple had six children, the last three of whom were daughters; Rebecca, Elizabeth and Jane. The children were intimate friends of Sir Walter Scott. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 145. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pg. 29.  Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 305. Rounder 7059, Alex Francis MacKay with Gordon MacLean – “Gaelic in the Bow” (2005).

X:1

T:Miss Forbes of Pitsligo

M:C

L:1/8

R:Strathspey

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:F

F|C>FA>F c>FA>F|C>FA>f c/c/B/A/ G2|C>FA>d c>FA>a|

f>c d/c/B/A/ G2 F>A|C>FA>F c>FA>F|C>FA>f d/c/B/A/ G2|

C>FA>d c>FA>a|f>c d/c/B/A/ G2 F||c/4d/4e/|f>c f/e/d/c/ f<c c>a|

f<d c>A G<g g>a|f>c f/e/d/c/ f<c c>a|f>dc>A G2 F c/4d/4e/|

f>c f/e/d/c/ f<c ca/g/|f>dc>A G<g g>a|f>cd>b c<aB<g|A>f cB/A/ G2 G2||

                                   

MISS FORBES’ RETURN. Irish, March (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning. AB. O’Neill (1922) notes: "’Miss Forbes' Return’ as noted by Humphrey Murphy in Sergt. James O'Neill's manuscripts differs not materially from "Miss Forbes' Farewell" as printed in Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs 1782-97. This strain is no less popular in Ireland than it is with Highland pipers everywhere. It may be claimed that Murphy's variant is more Irish in character than the original.” Source for notated version: Chicago police Sergeant James O’Neill, originally from County Down, scribe and contributor to the O’Neill publications [O’Neill]. O’Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922; No. 73.

X:1

T:Miss Forbes' Return

M:4/4

L:1/8

S:Sergt. James O'Neill manuscript

Z:Paul Kinder

R:March

K:G

GA|B2 d2 cBAG|B2 d2 efge|d2 de dBGA|B2 A2 A2 GA|

B2 Bd cBAG|B2 d2 efge|d2 ge dBAc|B2 G2 G2||

d2|g2 ga gfed|efge agfe|d2 de dBGA|"tr"B2 A2 A2 d2|

g2 ga gfed|efge agfe|d2 ge dBAc|B2 G2 G2||

                       


MISS FORDYCE (OF) AYTON. Scottish, Reel. E Minor. Standard tuning. AB. Composed by Red Robert Mackintosh, a late 18th century violinist and composer. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), Vol. 2, 1895; pg. 47. Redwing Music RWMCD 5410, Abby Newton – “Castles, Kirks and Caves” (2001).

X:1

T:Miss Fordyce Ayton

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Glen Collection, vol. 2  (1895)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Emin

B|E/E/E (BG) EB,GE|FDAF dAFD|GEBG EB,GE|ABGF G(EEB)|E/E/E (BG) EB,GE|

FDAF dAFD|EGFA GBAc|BAGF GEE||f|ebge Bege|(d/e/f/g/ a)f defd|ebge Bege|

^dfBa g(eef)|ebge Bege|(d/e/f/g/ a)f defd|egfa gbfa|gef^d eEE||

 

MISS FORSYTH'S REEL--HUNTLY. AKA - "Miss Forsyth Huntly." Scottish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Moyra Cowie, in her book The Life and Times of William Marshall (1999) suggest that Miss Forsyth was the daughter of William Forsyth, who supplied kilts for the Black Watch and who helped raise men for the Marquis of Huntly’s regiment in 1790. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, pg. 43. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 58.

X:1

T:Miss Forsyth Huntly

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

B:Stewart-Robertson – The Athole Collection (1884)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Amin

E<A A>B c2ce|GABc dBGB|E<A A>B c2 ce|E<E E>^G A2A2:|

cde^f gage|GABc dBGB|cde^f gage|d<B g>B A2 AB|cde^f gage|

GABc dBGB|cedB cABG|E<E E>^G A2A2||

 

MISS FRASER(‘S REEL). Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning. AB. This may be the reel "Miss Fraser" that John McGill, a dancing master in Girvan, wrote the directions to in 1752 for his students. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of a tune with this title in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (pg. 18), and two settings of a tune by this name appear in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 384. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 3, 1806; pg. 16.

X:1

T:Miss Fraser’s Reel

M:C|

L:1/8

R:Reel

S:Gow – 3rd Repository  (1806)

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:D

g|g(GG)A GAG(g|g)(GG)B {B}A>GEa|g(GG)A GABG|A/A/A (a/b/g) e2 (g2|

g)GGA GAGg|gGGB {B}A>GEa|g(GG)A GABG|A/A/A (b/a/g) e2g||

e|dega (b/a/g) (a/g/e)|(de/f/) gB A>G E>g|dega bg ab|d/d/d (b/a/g) e2 g>e|

de ga (b/a/g) (a/g/e)|(de/f/) gB A>GEg|de ga (b/a/)g ab|d/d/d (b/a/g) e2g2||

 

MISS FRAZER’S DELIGHT. AKA and see “Drum,” “Frazer’s (Jig) [2],” “Jackson’s Drum,” “Paddy from Portlaw,” “Thatched Cabin.” Irish, Jig. See note for “Paddy from Portlaw.” The tune appears under this title in P.W. Joyce’s manuscript collection (I, 420) in the National Library, Dublin.

 

MISS FRENCH. Scottish. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of this tune in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (pg. 66).

 

MISS FYFFE'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey ("Slow when no danced"). E Flat Major. Standard tuning. AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection, pg. 24.

X:1

T:Miss Fyffe’s Strathspey

M:C

L:1/8

S:Marshall – 1845 Collection

Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion

K:Eb

e|B>A G<E B,<EG,<E|D<(F F>G) A2 (Ac)|B>A G<E B,<EG,<E|G<(e e>)G B2B:|

c/d/|(e/d/c/B/) (Ge) B<eGE|D<(F F>)G A2 Ac/d/|eBge fdeE|

G<B e>G B2 Bc/d/|(e/d/c/B/) (GE) eEGE|D<(F F>)G A2 (Ac)|

(B/e/)g/f/ (e/d/)c/B/ e>B c<e|B>G E/F/G/A/ B2B||

 

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