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'''LORD LEWIS GORDON('S REEL).''' Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 Collection. Lord Lewis Gordon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon_%28Jacobite%29] was the third son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, and one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters. He was appointed a member of the Prince's council in Edinburgh as a result of his victories on the Stuart's behalf in the rising of 1745. | '''LORD LEWIS GORDON('S REEL).''' Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 Collection. Lord Lewis Gordon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon_%28Jacobite%29] was the third son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, and one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters. He was appointed a member of the Prince's council in Edinburgh as a result of his victories on the Stuart's behalf in the rising of 1745. | ||
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''Printed sources'': McGlashan ('''Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), vol. 3, 1786; p. 1. | ''Printed sources'': McGlashan ('''Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), vol. 3, 1786; p. 1. Robert Ross ('''Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys'''), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 34. | ||
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LORD LEWIS GORDON('S REEL). Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCDEEFF. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander McGlashan's 1780 Collection. Lord Lewis Gordon [1] was the third son of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, and one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters. He was appointed a member of the Prince's council in Edinburgh as a result of his victories on the Stuart's behalf in the rising of 1745.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), vol. 3, 1786; p. 1. Robert Ross (Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances & Strathspeys), Edinburgh, 1780; p. 34.
Recorded sources: