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'''MISS LOUISA CAMPBELL'S DELIGHT'''. AKA and see "[[Lady Mary Menzie's Reel (2)]],” “[[Lucy Campbell's (1)]]." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection. | '''MISS LOUISA CAMPBELL'S DELIGHT'''. AKA - "Miss Louisa Campbell's Strathspey." AKA and see "[[Lady Mary Menzie's Reel (2)]],” “[[Lucy Campbell's (1)]]." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection. Glasgow fiddler-composer Joshua Campbell included the tune in his 1789 collection along with a number of other tunes with the Campbell surname in the title. There is no particular reason to suspect that Louisa Campbell was a relation, and its possible he simply was drawn to 'Campbell' tunes with his last name, or collected them to forward clan honor. The Edinburgh-based McGlashan printed the tune some nine years prior to Campbell, but there is no composer attribution in either volume. | ||
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MISS LOUISA CAMPBELL'S DELIGHT. AKA - "Miss Louisa Campbell's Strathspey." AKA and see "Lady Mary Menzie's Reel (2),” “Lucy Campbell's (1)." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 collection. Glasgow fiddler-composer Joshua Campbell included the tune in his 1789 collection along with a number of other tunes with the Campbell surname in the title. There is no particular reason to suspect that Louisa Campbell was a relation, and its possible he simply was drawn to 'Campbell' tunes with his last name, or collected them to forward clan honor. The Edinburgh-based McGlashan printed the tune some nine years prior to Campbell, but there is no composer attribution in either volume.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780; p. 2.
Recorded sources: