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MRS. GARDEN OF TROUP [2]. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by the well known Scottish fiddle/composer biography:Robert Petrie (1767-1830), who wrote several tunes for members of the Garden family. The tune appears in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels &c. (1796), dedicated to Mrs. Garden. Like William Marshall, Alexander Walker and other musician-composers, Petrie labored for his patrons in an other-than-musical position, in his case as a gardener. Mrs. Garden was Penelope Smythe, who in 1791 married Francis Garden-Campbell, 6th of Troup and Glenlyon.

Additional notes

Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Glen (Glen Collection of Scottish Music, vol. 2), 1895; p. 24. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 244.

Recorded sources: - Flying Fish FF 250, The Battlefield Band - "Home Is Where the Van Is" (1981).

See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [1]

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+'''MRS. GARDEN OF TROUP [2]'''. Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by the well known Scottish fiddle/composer [[biography:Robert Petrie]] (1767-1830), who wrote several tunes for members of the Garden family. The tune appears in his '''Second Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.''' (1796), dedicated to Mrs. Garden.  Like William Marshall, Alexander Walker and other musician-composers, Petrie labored for his patrons in an other-than-musical position, in his case as a gardener. Mrs. Garden was Penelope Smythe, who in 1791 married Francis Garden-Campbell, 6th of Troup and Glenlyon.
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