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|f_annotation='''GENERAL GRAHAM [2].''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "General Graham [2]" is attributed to Edward Simpson in Joseph Lowe's '''Collection of Reels...Book 4''' (1844-45), along with the following tune in the collection, "[[News from Cadiz]]", a strathsepy. The two are perhaps meant to be played together in a reel-and-strathspey medley, as they both likely refer to a battle of the Peninsular War. General Thomas Graham ( | |f_annotation='''GENERAL GRAHAM [2].''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "General Graham [2]" is attributed to Edward Simpson in Joseph Lowe's '''Collection of Reels...Book 4''' (1844-45), along with the following tune in the collection, "[[News from Cadiz]]", a strathsepy. The two are perhaps meant to be played together in a reel-and-strathspey medley, as they both likely refer to a battle of the Peninsular War. General Thomas Graham (1748-1843), later Lord Lynedoch, was the victor at the Battle of Barrosa, near Cadiz March 1811, raising the siege of Cádiz by the French. | ||
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Edward Simpson may be the musician of that name who was, for a time, the leader of the band of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Joseph Lowe ('''Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 4'''), 1844–1845; p. 9. | |||
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GENERAL GRAHAM [2]. Scottish, Reel (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "General Graham [2]" is attributed to Edward Simpson in Joseph Lowe's Collection of Reels...Book 4 (1844-45), along with the following tune in the collection, "News from Cadiz", a strathsepy. The two are perhaps meant to be played together in a reel-and-strathspey medley, as they both likely refer to a battle of the Peninsular War. General Thomas Graham (1748-1843), later Lord Lynedoch, was the victor at the Battle of Barrosa, near Cadiz March 1811, raising the siege of Cádiz by the French.
Edward Simpson may be the musician of that name who was, for a time, the leader of the band of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
