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LADY ELENORA HOME [1]. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearence of this tune in print in Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection (p. 5). Gow (1817) attributes it to Dow, an Edinburgh composer and music teacher who lived from 1732 to 1783, perhaps most famous as the composer of "Money Musk." His collection of Scots tunes called Thirty-seven new reels and strathspeys (1775) appears to be the first collection to include the word "strathspey" in its title. Dow's family is known to have stayed in Strathardle and his son (John Dow) was born at Kirkmichael. The elder Dow's first name has been given as Daniel or Donald (both acceptable translations for the Gaelic 'Domhnull'). He was buried in the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh on January 20th, 1783.

Eleanora Elizabeth Home (1759-1837) was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home and Primrose Elphinstone. Her father succeeded to the title of Lord Home, 9th Earl of Home in 1761. She married Major-General Thomas Dundas of Fingask in 1784, a Member of Parliament for Shetland and Orkney from 1771 to 1784, but also fought in the American War of Independence between 1779 and 1781, where he surrendered Yorktown.

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Printed sources: Dow (Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances), 1773; p. 5. Dow (Reells [sic] & strathspeys for the violin, harpsichord, pianoforte or German flute), n.d.; p. 4. Gow (A collection of strathspey reels with a bass for the violoncello or harpsichord containing the most approved old and the most fashionable new reels some of which are composed and others with additions by Nathaniel Gow), c. 1797; p. 12. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; p. 37.

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-Eleanora Elizabeth Home (1759-1837) was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home and Primrose Elphinstone. Her father succeeded to the title of Lord Home, 9th Earl of Home in 1761. She married Major-General Thomas Dundas of Fingask in 1784.
+Eleanora Elizabeth Home (1759-1837) was the daughter of Reverend Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home and Primrose Elphinstone. Her father succeeded to the title of Lord Home, 9th Earl of Home in 1761. She married Major-General Thomas Dundas of Fingask in 1784, a Member of Parliament for Shetland and Orkney from 1771 to 1784, but also fought in the American War of Independence between 1779 and 1781, where he surrendered Yorktown.
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