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LADY ANN STEWART'S STRATHSPEY. AKA - "Lady Ann Stewart." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Ann Stewart's Strathspy" was also entered (as "Lady Ann Steuart") into the music copybook [1] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife ^[1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. Buttery set the tune as a reel rather than as a strathspey, in the fife-friendly key of 'G'.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances), c. 1820; p. 17. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository Book 3), 1885; p. 246. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1), 1844, p. 15. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 74-75.

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↑ Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm

[1] Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm

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-'''LADY ANN STEWART'S STRATHSPEY.''' AKA - "Lady Ann Stewart." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was also entered into the music manuscript collection of fifer or fiddler John Fife (as "Lady Ann Steuart"), who began compiling his tunes around 1780, and added to his manuscript for the next twenty-four years. Fife was perhaps from Perthshire, although entries in his ms. indicate he may also have made entries at sea; there are references to battles in Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
+'''LADY ANN STEWART'S STRATHSPEY.''' AKA - "Lady Ann Stewart." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Ann Stewart's Strathspy" was also entered (as "Lady Ann Steuart") into the music copybook [https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/melodies/] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada.  Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife <ref>Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm</ref>, with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. Buttery set the tune as a reel rather than as a strathspey, in the fife-friendly key of 'G'.
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