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|f_annotation='''MRS. OSWALD OF DUNNIKER'S MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Perthshire/Edinburgh fiddler-composer [[biography:Daniel Dow]], it appears in his c. 1775 '''Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances'''. He named the tune for<span>Janet Grey of Skibo,</span><span>Sutherland, who became Mrs. Oswald when she married Scottish politician James Townsend Oswald<span> (1748-1814) </span>died in 1843. Their son was General Sir John Oswald</span><span>and their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Janet outlived her husband several decades and died in | |f_annotation='''MRS. OSWALD OF DUNNIKER'S MINUET'''. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Perthshire/Edinburgh fiddler-composer [[biography:Daniel Dow]], it appears in his c. 1775 '''Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances'''. He named the tune for<span>Janet Grey (1746-1841) of Skibo,</span><span> Sutherland, who became Mrs. Oswald in 1764 when she married Scottish politician James Townsend Oswald<span> (1748-1814) </span>died in 1843. Their son was General Sir John Oswald</span><span>and their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Janet outlived her husband several decades and died in 1841.</span> | ||
|f_printed_sources=<span>Daniel Dow ('''Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances''') c. 1775; p. 12.</span><span></span> | |f_printed_sources=<span>Daniel Dow ('''Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances''') c. 1775; p. 12.</span><span></span> | ||
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MRS. OSWALD OF DUNNIKER'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Perthshire/Edinburgh fiddler-composer biography:Daniel Dow, it appears in his c. 1775 Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances. He named the tune forJanet Grey (1746-1841) of Skibo, Sutherland, who became Mrs. Oswald in 1764 when she married Scottish politician James Townsend Oswald (1748-1814) died in 1843. Their son was General Sir John Oswaldand their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Janet outlived her husband several decades and died in 1841.
