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|f_annotation='''COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Glasgow Ladys]]," "[[Lady Hamilton (3)]]," "[[Lady Sutherland]]," "[[Ridge (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Petrie, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). According to W.B. Laybourn ('''Köhler's Violin Repository, Book 1''', 1881) the reel was composed by George Jenkins, a dancing master in London who may or may not have been of Scottish birth. Several writers have pointed out that many of his compositions seem to lack a genuine Scottish idiom. However, Robert Petrie ascribed the composition to Daniel Dow in his '''Third Collection of Strathspey Reels''' (1802, p. 24). | |||
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'''COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Glasgow Ladys]]," "[[Lady Hamilton (3)]]," "[[Lady Sutherland]]," "[[Ridge (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Petrie, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne): D Major (Aird). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). According to W.B. Laybourn ('''Köhler's Violin Repository, Book 1''', 1881) the reel was composed by George Jenkins, a dancing master in London who may or may not have been of Scottish birth. Several writers have pointed out that many of his compositions seem to lack a genuine Scottish idiom. However, Robert Petrie ascribed the composition to Daniel Dow in his '''Third Collection of Strathspey Reels''' (1802, p. 24). | |||
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See also the related Irish reels "[[Tansey's Favourite (1)]]," "[[Bloom of Youth (The)]]," "[[Dr. Taylor]]," "[[Downshire Reel (The)]]," and "[[Gardiner's Favourite (1)]]." Reserchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward also finds versions of the tune in the music manuscripts of Patrick O'Farrell (Aughadowry, Ballinamuck, Co. Longford, c. 1870's) as "[[Highland Bonnet (The)]]," in Larry Smyth's MS (Abbeylara, Co. Longford, c. 1900) as "[[Highland Lament (The)]], and, as an untitled tune (for which see "[[Reel (90)]]") in Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper [[biography:Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894). | See also the related Irish reels "[[Tansey's Favourite (1)]]," "[[Bloom of Youth (The)]]," "[[Dr. Taylor]]," "[[Downshire Reel (The)]]," and "[[Gardiner's Favourite (1)]]." Reserchers Fr. John Quinn and Conor Ward also finds versions of the tune in the music manuscripts of Patrick O'Farrell (Aughadowry, Ballinamuck, Co. Longford, c. 1870's) as "[[Highland Bonnet (The)]]," in Larry Smyth's MS (Abbeylara, Co. Longford, c. 1900) as "[[Highland Lament (The)]], and, as an untitled tune (for which see "[[Reel (90)]]") in Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper [[biography:Stephen Grier]] (c. 1824-1894). | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4'''), 1796, No. 26, p. 10. Anonymous ('''A Companion to the reticule'''), 1833; p. 4. Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 242. Gow ('''The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels'''), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 32. '''Harding's All Round Collection''', 1905; No. 30, p. 9. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 264 (arranged for string quintet). Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 3'''), c. 1880's; No. 174, p. 20. Laybourn ('''Köhler's Violin Repository, Book 1''' ), 1881-1885; p. 69. J. Kenyon Lees ('''Balmoral Reel Book'''), c. 1910; p. 15. MacDonald ('''The Skye Collection'''), 1887; p. 148. Petrie ('''Third Collection of Strathspey Reels'''), 1802; p. 24. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 288. Surenne ('''Dance Music of Scotland'''), 1852; p. 19. | |||
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