View source for Annotation:Mrs. Grant of Laggan’s Strathspey

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'''MRS. GRANT OF LAGGAN'''. AKA and see "[[Miss Lyall (2)]].” Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr): ABC (Tolman). The celebrated Mrs. Ann Grant of Laggan (1755-1838) lived in Strathspey most of her life and leaves us something of herself and Highland life in her '''Poems and Memoirs of a Highland Lady'''.  In this excerpt (quoted by Emmerson, 1972) she refers to the fashionable attendees, aping "with air constrained, the rural balls!"
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''The nymph that wont to trace the source of Tay,''<br>
''Or lead the sprightly dance by rapid Spey,''<br>
''With conscious triumph smiles aside to see,''<br>
''This 'faint reflection of the rural glee.'''<br>
''While polish'd courtiers pant in active reels.''<br>
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Gow (1817) says the tune was “Communicated by Captain (Simon) Fraser of Knocky,” editor of the important Fraser Collection of Highland airs and melodies. See also the County Donegal variant “[[Old Cameronian]]" and the Irish variant “[[Paddy Ryan’s Dream (1)]].”
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''Printed sources'':  Gow ('''Complete Repository'''), Part 4, 1817; p. 26. Kerr ('''Merry Melodies'''), vol. 4; No. 139,  p. 17. Tolman ('''Nelson Music Collection'''), 1969; p. 19.
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