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'''COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Glasgow Ladys]]," "[[Lady Hamilton (3)]]," "[[Lady Sutherland]]," "[[Ridge (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). | '''COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Glasgow Ladys]]," "[[Lady Hamilton (3)]]," "[[Lady Sutherland]]," "[[Ridge (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Petrie, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). According to the reel was composed by George Jenkins, a dancing master in London who may or may not have been of Scottish birth. Several writers have pointed out that many of his compositions seem to lack a genuine Scottish idiom. However, Robert Petrie ascribes the composition to Daniel Dow in his '''Third Collection of Strathspey Reels''' (1802, p. 24). | ||
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<font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796, No. 26, p. 10. Anonymous ('''A Companion to the reticule'''), 1833; p. 4. Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 242. Gow ('''The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels'''), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 32. '''Harding's All Round Collection''', 1905; No. 30, p. 9. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 264 (arranged for string quintet). Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 3'''), c. 1880's; No. 174, p. 20. '''Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 1''' , 1881-1885; p. 69. J. Kenyon Lees ('''Balmoral Reel Book'''), c. 1910; p. 15. MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 148. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 288. Surenne ('''Dance Music of Scotland'''), 1852; p. 19. | <font color=red>''Printed sources''</font> : - Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796, No. 26, p. 10. Anonymous ('''A Companion to the reticule'''), 1833; p. 4. Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 242. Gow ('''The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels'''), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 32. '''Harding's All Round Collection''', 1905; No. 30, p. 9. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 264 (arranged for string quintet). Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 3'''), c. 1880's; No. 174, p. 20. '''Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 1''' , 1881-1885; p. 69. J. Kenyon Lees ('''Balmoral Reel Book'''), c. 1910; p. 15. MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 148. Petrie ('''Third Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), 1802; p. 24. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 288. Surenne ('''Dance Music of Scotland'''), 1852; p. 19. | ||
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COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]. AKA and see "Glasgow Ladys," "Lady Hamilton (3)," "Lady Sutherland," "Ridge (The)." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Petrie, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). According to the reel was composed by George Jenkins, a dancing master in London who may or may not have been of Scottish birth. Several writers have pointed out that many of his compositions seem to lack a genuine Scottish idiom. However, Robert Petrie ascribes the composition to Daniel Dow in his Third Collection of Strathspey Reels (1802, p. 24).
On the death of the 18th Earl of Sutherland, William Gordon, without male issue, the title passed to his daughter Elizabeth (1765-1839). She became the 19th Countess of Sutherland only a few weeks after her first birthday, in 1766. She married an Englishman, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford, in September, 1785, and later became Duchess when Stafford was created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. Elizabeth was a distinguished artist and painter. Their reputation has been marred by their ill-treatment of tenants in the matter of the Highland clearances, initiated to "improve" their estates by displacing people in favour of sheep. She is said to have pursued the depopulation of her lands with "vigour and cruel thoroughness," so that "her name is still reviled in many homes with Highland connections across the world today." Karl Marx wrote an article condemning her practices, entitled "The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery" (The People's Paper, March 12, 1853). Artist George Romney painted her portrait in 1782, at age seventeen, three years before she married Leveson-Gower. [George Romney also painted a number of paintings of Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, for whom see the alternate title of "Countess of Sutherland"].
See also the related Irish reels "Tansey's Favourite (1)," "Bloom of Youth (The)," "Dr. Taylor," "Downshire Reel (The)," and "Gardiner's Favourite (1)." Resercher Conor Ward also finds versions of the tune in the music manuscripts of Patrick O'Farrell (Aughadowry, Ballinamuck, Co. Longford, c. 1870's) as "Highland Bonnet (The)," and in Larry Smyth's MS (Abbeylara, Co. Longford, c. 1900) as "Highland Lament (The)."