View source for Annotation:Lady St. Clair Dysart's Strathspey

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|f_annotation='''LADY ST. CLAIR DYSART'S STRATHSPEY.'''  Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady St. Clair Dysart's Strathspey" was composed by [[biography:James Walker]] (1771-1840), a fiddler-composer and music teacher of Dysart, Fife, Scotland. His second collection was dedicated to Lady St. Clair Erskine, spouse of soldier and politician [[wikipedia:James_St_Clair-Erskine,_2nd_Earl_of_Rosslyn]], to whom he dedicated his first collection.  In 1789 Erskine inherited the Rosslyn and Dysart estates from his cousin James Paterson St Clair, and adopted the name St Clair before his own surname. Lady St. Clair Erskine was Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Edward Bouverie, who married Erskine in 1790 with issue of a daughter and two sons. Born in 1771, she died in August 1810.
|f_printed_sources=<span>James Walker ('''Collection of new Scots reels, strathspeys, jigs, &c.'''),c. 1795; p. 1.</span><span></span>
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