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LONG LIFE TO STEPMOTHERS. Scottish, Slow Quickstep. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831) the title suggested by his family. Father Niel Gow (1727-1807) married twice. His first wife was Margaret Wiseman, with whom he had five sons and three daughters. She died in . Niel remarried to Margaret Urquhart of Perth in 1768, and, although they had no children of their own, they remained happily married until her death in 1805. As stepmother, she had affectionate relationships with all Niel's children by his first wife. Niel was deeply distressed by Margaret Urquhart's death and stopped playing for a time, until urged back to the fiddle by his family. When he picked it up again he composed the lovely "Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife." The tune was probably partly an answer to "Short Life to All Stepmothers," a strathspey by Malcolm MacDonald, appearing in his Fourth Collection (1797).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 573. Gow (Fourth Collection of Strathspey Dances), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 4.
Recorded sources: