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'''GREIG'S STRATHSPEY'''. Scottish, Slow Strathspey or (Pastoral) Air (4/4 time). A Minor (Skye): G Minor (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner): AABB (Gow, Skye). "Very old" (Gow, Skye); "Ancient Melody" (Skinner). John Glen ('''Early Scottish Melodies''', 1900) said it was believed this strathspey was the composition of James Greig, a teacher of dancing in Ayrshire (as was "[[Greig's Pipes]]"). J. Murdoch Henderson (1902-1972) said the tune was "Nathaniel Gow's favourite ancient melody." | |f_annotation='''GREIG'S STRATHSPEY'''. AKA - "Greg's Strathspey." Scottish, Slow Strathspey or (Pastoral) Air (4/4 time). A Minor (Offord, Skye): G Minor (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Offord): AB (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner): AABB (Gow, Skye). "Very old" (Gow, Skye); "Ancient Melody" (Skinner). John Glen ('''Early Scottish Melodies''', 1900) said it was believed this strathspey was the composition of James Greig, a teacher of dancing in Ayrshire (as was "[[Greig's Pipes]]"). J. Murdoch Henderson (1902-1972) said the tune was "Nathaniel Gow's favourite ancient melody." | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]; William Irwin music manuscript collection (c. 1850, Lake District, Cumbria) [Offord]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Joshua Campbell ('''A Collection of New Reels and Highland Strathspeys &c.'''), 1789, p. 5 ("Greg's Strathspey"). Cranford ('''Winston Fitzgerald'''), 1997; No. 229, p. 92. Gow ('''Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels'''), 1788; p. 20 (3rd ed.). Henderson ('''Flowers of Scottish Melody'''), 1935. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 48. MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 101. John Offord ('''Bonny Cumberland'''), 2018; p. 41. Skinner ('''Harp and Claymore Collection'''), 1904; p. 16. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Olympic 6151, Arthur Robertson - "Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music" (1969). Topic 12TS424, Jock Tamson's Bairns - "The Lasses Fashion" (1982). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t3527.html]<br> | |||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t3527.html]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 21:47, 28 November 2022
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GREIG'S STRATHSPEY. AKA - "Greg's Strathspey." Scottish, Slow Strathspey or (Pastoral) Air (4/4 time). A Minor (Offord, Skye): G Minor (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part (Offord): AB (Cranford, Hunter, Skinner): AABB (Gow, Skye). "Very old" (Gow, Skye); "Ancient Melody" (Skinner). John Glen (Early Scottish Melodies, 1900) said it was believed this strathspey was the composition of James Greig, a teacher of dancing in Ayrshire (as was "Greig's Pipes"). J. Murdoch Henderson (1902-1972) said the tune was "Nathaniel Gow's favourite ancient melody."
