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'''MISS ERSKINE OF BARJARG.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer [[biography:John Riddell]]'s 1782 second collection (p. 53), printed in Glasgow by James Aird. | '''MISS ERSKINE OF BARJARG.''' Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer [[biography:John Riddell]]'s 1782 second collection (p. 53), printed in Glasgow by James Aird. It seems likely that the tune also was included in Riddell's first collection of 1766 (his second collection was an expansion of his first). James Erskine (1722-1796) of Barjarg and Alva, was a Baron of the Exchequer in 1754, Knight-Marshall of Scotland in 1758, and Lord of Sessions in 1761, and took the title of Lord Barjarg, later changing it to Lord Alva. He sold the Barjarg property (located in Keir parish, Dumfries) to Rev. Andrew Hunter, D.D. or Abottshill, Ayrshire in 1772. Erskine married Jean Stirling, daughter of George Stirling of Auchule and Herbertshire, although the couple remained childless; thus, the subject of the title "Miss Erskine of Barjarg" is still unknown. | ||
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MISS ERSKINE OF BARJARG. Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Ayrshire fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell's 1782 second collection (p. 53), printed in Glasgow by James Aird. It seems likely that the tune also was included in Riddell's first collection of 1766 (his second collection was an expansion of his first). James Erskine (1722-1796) of Barjarg and Alva, was a Baron of the Exchequer in 1754, Knight-Marshall of Scotland in 1758, and Lord of Sessions in 1761, and took the title of Lord Barjarg, later changing it to Lord Alva. He sold the Barjarg property (located in Keir parish, Dumfries) to Rev. Andrew Hunter, D.D. or Abottshill, Ayrshire in 1772. Erskine married Jean Stirling, daughter of George Stirling of Auchule and Herbertshire, although the couple remained childless; thus, the subject of the title "Miss Erskine of Barjarg" is still unknown.
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Printed sources: Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, &c.), 1782; p. 53.
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