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|f_annotation='''MR. GUTHRIE OF CRAIGIE'S STRATHSPEY.'''  Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mr. Guthrie of Craigie's Strathspey"was first printed around the year 1810 by music seller Robert Purdie for his Princes Street, Edinburgh, shop on a single sheet issue (2 pages) entitled "Tom Thumb, A Favoirite Dance", together with "three new strathspeys and a reel" by [[biography:James Boick]] (Boick's name is not attached to "[[Tom Thumb]]" as it is the other tunes, although he may have been the composer). Boick's name crops up as the composer of tunes in the collections of Robert Petrie, and, later, in '''Hamilton's Universal Tune Book''' (1843) and '''Köhler's Violin Repository''' (1881-1885); John Pringle composed a strathspey for him. David Baptie ('''Musical Scotland''', 1885), however, makes no mention of him.
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'Mr. Guthrie' of the strathspey's title was James Guthrie Esq. of Craigie in Forfarshire, the father of a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Boick composed another tune in his small "Tom Thumb" collection, "[[Mrs. Rait's Strathspey]]," along with the companion tune "[[Mr. Rait of Anniston's Reel]]" for her older husband, John Rait (1748-1823) of Anniston. The seat of the Barony of Craigie was Craigie House near Dundee, built by the 1st Baron of Craigie James Guthrie or his son. In the latter half of the 18th century Craigie House was one of the better-known country houses in Forfarshire. In the Statistical Account of 1793 the agricultural focus on the manor was noted: "The market in Dundee, for all kinds of butcher meat, is one of the best in Scotland. No sheep are bred, or even fattened for sale, except a few by Mr. Guthrie of Craigie."  In 1856 Craigie House was described as a "...neat villa, beautifully situated amid finely wooded grounds and gardens, on the sea-coast, on the north side of the Broughty Ferry Road,[18] about two miles east of Dundee."
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