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'''LASSIE, LOOK BEFORE YOU/YE.'''. AKA and see "[[Look Before You]]," "[[Lasses Look Before You]]," "[[Miss Agnes Ross’s Reel]]," "[[Miss Ross]]," "[[Miss Ross’ Strathspey—of Elgin (1)]]," Scottish, Strathspey. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Balmoral, Honeyman, Howe, Kerr): AABB' (Athole, Skye). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), though this was not Marshall's title, but rather a variation of the one published by the Gow's. In Marshall's own collection the strathspey appears under the "Miss Ross" title. As "Lasses Look Before You" it is played as a Shetland Reel on the island of Unst. | '''LASSIE, LOOK BEFORE YOU/YE.'''. AKA and see "[[Look Before You]]," "[[Lasses Look Before You]]," "[[Miss Agnes Ross’s Reel]]," "[[Miss Ross]]," "[[Miss Ross’ Strathspey—of Elgin (1)]]," Scottish, Strathspey. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Balmoral, Goodman, Honeyman, Howe, Kerr): AABB' (Athole, Skye). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), though this was not Marshall's title, but rather a variation of the one published by the Gow's. In Marshall's own collection the strathspey appears under the "Miss Ross" title. As "Lasses Look Before You" it is played as a Shetland Reel on the island of Unst. | ||
[[File:marshall.jpg|250px|thumb|left|William Marshall]] | [[File:marshall.jpg|250px|thumb|left|William Marshall]] The reel appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]]. | ||
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LASSIE, LOOK BEFORE YOU/YE.. AKA and see "Look Before You," "Lasses Look Before You," "Miss Agnes Ross’s Reel," "Miss Ross," "Miss Ross’ Strathspey—of Elgin (1)," Scottish, Strathspey. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Balmoral, Goodman, Honeyman, Howe, Kerr): AABB' (Athole, Skye). Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833), though this was not Marshall's title, but rather a variation of the one published by the Gow's. In Marshall's own collection the strathspey appears under the "Miss Ross" title. As "Lasses Look Before You" it is played as a Shetland Reel on the island of Unst.
The reel appears in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Honeyman (Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor), 1898; p. 7. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 123 (appears as "Lassies, Look Before You"). Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; Set 11, No. 1, p. 8. J. Kenyon Lees (Balmoral Reel Book), c. 1910; p. 4. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 39. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 101.
Recorded sources: Beltona 2103 (78 RPM), Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society (1936). Rounder 7059, Alex Francis MacKay with Gordon MacLean - "Gaelic in the Bow" (2005).