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LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL'S STRATHSPEY [2]. AKA - "Lady Charlotte Campbell's New Strathspey." Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major (most versions): C Major (Surenne): A Major (Johnson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (most versions): AABB' (Kerr). ne of the enduring compositions by Robert 'Red Rob' Mackintosh (b. 1745), who published the tune in 1793 (and who undoubtedly acquired his nickname because of having red hair). The Gows republished the melody in their Repository (Part Second), 1802, under the same title but without crediting MacIntosh. The companion reel is "Lady Charlotte Campbell's Reel (2)" (see Annotation: Lady Charlotte Campbell's Reel (2) for notes]] It is one of Mackintosh's more popular melodies among Cape Breton fiddlers. O
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford]; an 1845-47 music manuscript by Ellis Knowles, a musician from Radcliffe, Lancashire, England, where it appears as an untitled hornpipe, albeit in strathspey rhythm [Plain Brown]; Hector MacAndrew [Martin].
Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 45, p. 68 (appears as "Lady Charlotte Campbell's New Strathspey"). Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin) Edinburgh, 1820; p. 8. Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 506. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 111, p. 46. Doyle (Plain Brown Tune Book), 1997; p. 19 (appears as an untitled hornpipe). Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 173. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 2, 1891; p. 26. Johnson (The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past), 1992 (revised 2001); p. 9. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 36. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 208, p. 23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 190. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 136. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 282. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 84-85.
Recorded sources: Topic 12ST266, Alex Green - "Caledonian Companion" (1975).
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]