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'''LORD BLANTYRE'S.''' Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Gow, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by [[ | |f_annotation='''LORD BLANTYRE'S.''' Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Gow, Lowe, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by [[Wikipedia:Niel Gow]] (1727-1807), probably in honor of Robert Walter Stewart (1777-1830) the 11th Lord Blantyre, a Major-General in the British army. Stewart was the commanding officer of the 42nd Regiment--the famous Black Watch--during Wellington's Napoleonic War campaigns in Portugal and Spain in 1811-12. He was also the Lord Lieutenant of Renfreshire. Blantyre accidentally shot himself in Brussels in September, 1830. See "[[Tulleynet Hall]]/[[Tullymet Hall]]" for a minor mode, reel setting that is very similar. See also "[[Annotation:Lenox Love to Blantyre]]" for more on the family. | ||
[[File:gow.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Niel Gow]] | [[File:gow.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Niel Gow]] | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 119. Gow ('''Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), 1809; p. 33. Laybourn ('''Köhler’s Violin Repository vol. 2'''), 1881-1885; p. 134. Joseph Lowe ('''Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 5'''), 1859; p. 1. MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 19. McLachlan ('''The Piper's Assistant'''), 1854; No. 30, p. 18. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 34. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Rounder 7059, Alex Francis MacKay with Gordon MacLean - "Gaelic in the Bow" (2005). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t1859.html]<br> | |||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t1859.html]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:21, 29 April 2021
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LORD BLANTYRE'S. Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada, Cape Breton. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Gow, Lowe, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composed by Wikipedia:Niel Gow (1727-1807), probably in honor of Robert Walter Stewart (1777-1830) the 11th Lord Blantyre, a Major-General in the British army. Stewart was the commanding officer of the 42nd Regiment--the famous Black Watch--during Wellington's Napoleonic War campaigns in Portugal and Spain in 1811-12. He was also the Lord Lieutenant of Renfreshire. Blantyre accidentally shot himself in Brussels in September, 1830. See "Tulleynet Hall/Tullymet Hall" for a minor mode, reel setting that is very similar. See also "Annotation:Lenox Love to Blantyre" for more on the family.