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'''MISS SALLY HUNTER OF THURSTON'S JIG'''. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time ). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A popular jig composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader [[biography:Nathaniel Gow]] (1763-1831) whose dance band was resident in the city's Assembly Rooms for three decades, and whose reputation extended to London. Thurston House was a country estate near Dunbar in East Lothian held at the time of publication of Gow's '''Third Collection''' (1792) by Robert Hunter. 'Sally' remains unknown. | '''MISS SALLY HUNTER OF THURSTON'S JIG'''. AKA - "Sally Hunter of Thurston." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time ). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A popular jig composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader [[biography:Nathaniel Gow]] (1763-1831) whose dance band was resident in the city's Assembly Rooms for three decades, and whose reputation extended to London. Thurston House was a country estate near Dunbar in East Lothian held at the time of publication of Gow's '''Third Collection''' (1792) by Robert Hunter. 'Sally' remains unknown. | ||
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''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796; No. 74, p. 30. Gow ('''Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels'''), 3rd ed., originally 1792; p. 33. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 293. MacDonald ('''Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 177. | ''Printed sources'': Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796; No. 74, p. 30. Carlin ('''The Gow Collecton'''), 1986; No. 372. Gow ('''Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels'''), 3rd ed., originally 1792; p. 33. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 293. MacDonald ('''Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 177. | ||
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MISS SALLY HUNTER OF THURSTON'S JIG. AKA - "Sally Hunter of Thurston." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time ). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A popular jig composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) whose dance band was resident in the city's Assembly Rooms for three decades, and whose reputation extended to London. Thurston House was a country estate near Dunbar in East Lothian held at the time of publication of Gow's Third Collection (1792) by Robert Hunter. 'Sally' remains unknown.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 74, p. 30. Carlin (The Gow Collecton), 1986; No. 372. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 3rd ed., originally 1792; p. 33. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 293. MacDonald (Skye Collection), 1887; p. 177.
Recorded sources: Ian MacDougall – “From Foot Cape.” Alia Vox AVSA 9878, Jordi Savall - "The Celtic Viol. II" (2010). Scottish Records SR 33 135, Ron Gonnella – “Scottish Violin Music from the Gow Collections” (1973).