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Theme code Index	311L2 437L5L
Also known as	Coilesfield House
Composer/Core Source	Nathaniel Gow
Region	Scotland, Canada
Genre/Style	Cape Breton/PEI, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece, Strathspey
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History	CANADA(Maritimes/English)
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Nathaniel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels
Tune and/or Page number	p. 7
Year of publication/Date of MS	1809
Artist	Biography:Ossian
Title of recording	Seal Song
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Iona Records IR002
Year recorded	1981
Media
Score (1)

Coilsfield House: Annotations

X:1 T:Coilsfield House M:C L:1/8 C:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion B:Gow - Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels (1809) R:Air Q:"Slowly" K:G (G/A/)| (BD) (GB,) G,3 (A/B/)| (cA) (BG) ~(FA) D>c| (c/B/)(A/G/) (G2F/)E/D/ {F}G2 EC| (B,G) A,!trill!F GG, G,:| (B/c/)|(dB) (dB) {cd}e2 AB/c/| d(GFG) (A/G/)F/E/ DB/c/| dB dB (c/4d/2<e) (e/4f/2<g)| (f/g/a/g/) (f/d/e/f/) !trill!g2 G2 g/a/| bgdB (c/4d/2<e) AB/c/|d(GFG) (A/G/F/E/) Dc| BGDB, (CD/E/) A, D/C/| B,G A,TF GG, G, ||

Coilsfield House: Annotations

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-'''COILSFIELD HOUSE'''. Scottish, Strathspey ("Slowly") or "Pastoral" Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. :"Coilsfield House" is one of the finest compositions of Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), the fourth son of famed Scottish fiddle-composer Niel Gow. It was named after the home of Colonel Hugh Montgomery (1749-1819), Earl of Eglinton, in the parish of Tarbolton, Ayrshire. Neil (1991) explains the name "Coilsfield" apparently derives from the grave of King Coil, reputed to lie somewhere near the mansion house. Coil, or sometimes Coilus or Coel Hen, was a British king in the Roman or post-Roman era who was linked to the Strathclyde area; his name comes down to us in modern times in the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole." The property was once known as "Quillisfield" and was so named in the charter of John De Graham, who assigned the property to the monks of Melrose. Around 1640 it was acquired by James Montgomery, 4th son of Alexander, 6th Earl of Eglinton, and remained in the family for 250 years. His descendent Colonel Hugh Montgomery (or Montgomerie) was himself an amateur fiddler and Scottish music enthusiast and also was honored as the dedicatee of the Gow's Fourth Collection of Strathspey Dances (Edinburgh, 1800). The mansion was well-known to the poet Robert Burns when he dwelt at Lochlea, for it was where he went to meet his Highland Mary, Mary Campbell, then residing as a dairymaid at Coilsfield Housse.  It is where "Summer first unfaulds her robes," and where "they langest tarry," said he. His romance was short-lived however, for while they were lovers in the Spring, by October, 1786, Mary had died of a fever caught while waiting on a sick boy, her brother.
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-''For there I took the last farewell''<br>
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-''Sources for notated versions'': Nathaniel Gow's 5th collection (1809) [Henderson]. Cape Breton style fiddler Harvey Tolman (Nelson, N.H.) [Little]; Peter Chaisson, Jr. (b. 1942, Bear River, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman].
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-''Printed sources:'' Alburger ('''Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music'''), 1983; Ex. 82, p. 133. Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 23. Cranford ('''Jerry Holland: the Second Collection'''), 2000; No. 315, p. 113. Gow ('''Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), 1809; p. 7. Henderson ('''Flowers of Scottish Melody'''), 1935. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 5. Johnson ('''The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs and Melodies of Scotland's Past'''), vol. 10, 1992 (revised 2001); p. 4. Little ('''Scottish and Cape Breton Music in New Hampshire'''), 1984; p. 30. Neil ('''The Scots Fiddle'''), 1991; No. 100, p. 135. Perlman ('''The Fiddle Music of Prince Edwards Island'''), 1996; p. 205.
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-''Recorded sources:'' Green Linnet GLCD  1211, Kevin Crawford - "In Good Company" (2001). Iona Records IR002, Ossian - "Seal Song" (1981). Smithsonian Folkways Records, SFW CD 40507, The Beaton Family of Mabou - "Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music" (2004).  See also listings at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t77.html], Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://ibiblio.unc.edu/keefer/c08.htm#Coiho], Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/2392/].
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