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'''MISS BABIE GRAY'S MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet. Composed by Daniel (sometimes Donald) Dow and appearing first in James Gillespie's MS (1768) as an untitled minuet. Five years later it appeared in his 1773 collection having acquired a patron's title.
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We assume 'Babie' was a nickname for 'Barbara.' '''The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art''' (March 23, 1878, p. 375) printed this anecdote:
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''Certain ladies of the name of Gray were said to be given to "frolics," but nothing more distinct is recorded''
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''than that they found a remedy for everything in gin.  One of them, Miss Barbara Gray, fell asleep at her own''  
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''tea-party, while her guests were taling of the best varnish for furniture, whereat she woke up with "put some''
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''gin in it--gin hurts naething."''
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MISS BABIE GRAY'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by biography:Daniel Dow this minuet appears first in musician and dancing master James Gillespie's music manuscript collection (1768) as an untitled minuet. Several years later it appeared in Dow's Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances (c. 1775) and Robert Bremner's Collection of the Best Minuets for the Violin or German Flute (London) under a patron's title.

We assume 'Babie' was a nickname for 'Barbara.' The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (March 23, 1878, p. 375) printed this anecdote:

Certain ladies of the name of Gray were said to be given to "frolics," but nothing more distinct is recorded than that they found a remedy for everything in gin. One of them, Miss Barbara Gray, fell asleep at her own tea-party, while her guests were taling of the best varnish for furniture, whereat she woke up with "put some gin in it--gin hurts naething."


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Printed sources : - Daniel Dow (Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances), c. 1775; p. 29.






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