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'''LADY LUCY RAMSAY'''. Scottish, Strathspey. C Major (most versions): D Major (Anderson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Anderson, Balmoral, Gow, Honeyman): AABB' (Athole, Kerr, Skye). MacDonald's '''Skye Collection''' (1887) credits this tune to Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), however the Gows printed the tune with the attribution "By a Lady." There is a Scottish Country Dance by the name of Lady Lucy Ramsay. The strathspey may be a companion piece to "[[Lady Mary Ramsay]]." | '''LADY LUCY RAMSAY'''. AKA and see "[[Mrs. Todd's Strathspey]]." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major (most versions): D Major (Anderson, Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Anderson, Balmoral, Gow, Honeyman): AABB' (Athole, Kerr, Skye). MacDonald's '''Skye Collection''' (1887) credits this tune to Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), however the Gows printed the tune with the attribution "By a Lady." This is a curious attribution, however, for the strathspey is substantially the same as Duncan MacIntyre's "[[Mrs. Todd's Strathspey]]," printed in Edinburgh in 1794 in his '''Collection of Slow Airs, Reels and Strathspeys''', containing tunes without composer attribution but all considered MacIntyre compositions. The first strains of the two tunes are very similar, while the second differs somewhat more but still follows a similar harmonic and melodic contour. | ||
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LADY LUCY RAMSAY. AKA and see "Mrs. Todd's Strathspey." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major (most versions): D Major (Anderson, Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Anderson, Balmoral, Gow, Honeyman): AABB' (Athole, Kerr, Skye). MacDonald's Skye Collection (1887) credits this tune to Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), however the Gows printed the tune with the attribution "By a Lady." This is a curious attribution, however, for the strathspey is substantially the same as Duncan MacIntyre's "Mrs. Todd's Strathspey," printed in Edinburgh in 1794 in his Collection of Slow Airs, Reels and Strathspeys, containing tunes without composer attribution but all considered MacIntyre compositions. The first strains of the two tunes are very similar, while the second differs somewhat more but still follows a similar harmonic and melodic contour.
There is a Scottish Country Dance by the name of Lady Lucy Ramsay. The strathspey may be a companion piece to "Lady Mary Ramsay."
Lucy is perhaps Lady Elisabeth Ramsay (1769-1848), the 2nd daughter of George, the 8th Earl of Dalhousie (died 1787). (The 9th Earl of Dalhouse, also a George, did not marry until 1805, five years after the tune was published; his wife was Christina, and they did not have any female children). Lady Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 5th Bt., in 1786. Nathaniel Gow also composed a reel, "Lady L. Ramsay's Reel", which may be in her honor as well.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances for the German Flute or Violin), Edinburgh, 1820; p. 29. Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 99. Gow (Fourth Collection of Strathspey Dances), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 16. Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 15. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; Set 23, No. 3, p. 14. J. Kenyon Lees (Balmoral Reel Book), c. 1910; p. 5. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 120. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 66. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 64-65.
Recorded sources: Beltona SDP03, Jimmy Shand - "King of the Button Box" (2002).
See also listing at:
Alan Syner's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]