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'''LADY JEAN LINDSAY'S MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Daniel Dow (1732-83) of Perthshire and Edinburgh. The tune first appeared in the (James) '''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''' (1768) as "A New Minuet," and he must have later selected a patron, for it appears under the "Lady Jean" title in his 1773 collection. | '''LADY JEAN LINDSAY'S MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Daniel Dow (1732-83) of Perthshire and Edinburgh. The tune first appeared in the (James) '''Gillespie Manuscript of Perth''' (1768) as "A New Minuet," and he must have later selected a patron, for it appears under the "Lady Jean" title in his 1773 collection. | ||
[[File:jeanlindsay.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The Countess of Elginton (1777). Sir Joshua Reynolds | [[File:jeanlindsay.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The Countess of Elginton (1777). Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)]] | ||
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LADY JEAN LINDSAY'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Daniel Dow (1732-83) of Perthshire and Edinburgh. The tune first appeared in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) as "A New Minuet," and he must have later selected a patron, for it appears under the "Lady Jean" title in his 1773 collection.
Lady Jean Lindsay was the daughter of 19th Earl of Crawfurd
Source for notated version: the James Gillespie MS, Perth, 1768; p. 88 [Johnson].
Printed sources: Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 62, p. 154.
Recorded sources: Marquis Classics, Puirt a Baroque - "Kinloch's Fantasy" (1997).
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