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|f_annotation='''MRS. J. W. BOURKE'''. AKA - "[[Mrs. Bourke]]." AKA and see "[[Lady Augusta Murray]]," "[[Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)]]," "[[Strawberry Beds (2) (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "[[Lady Augusta Murray]]." The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "[[Strawberry Beds (2) (The)]]" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune. | |f_annotation='''MRS. J. W. BOURKE'''. AKA - "[[Mrs. Bourke]]." AKA and see "[[Lady Augusta Murray]]," "[[Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)]]," "[[Strawberry Beds (2) (The)]]." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "[[Lady Augusta Murray]]." The Gows printed it as "[[Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)]]" The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "[[Strawberry Beds (2) (The)]]" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune. | ||
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|f_printed_sources=Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 302. Gow ('''Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels'''), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 30. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 236. | |f_printed_sources=Carlin ('''The Gow Collection'''), 1986; No. 302. Gow ('''Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels'''), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 30. Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 236. | ||
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MRS. J. W. BOURKE. AKA - "Mrs. Bourke." AKA and see "Lady Augusta Murray," "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)," "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title possibly refers to a Miss Kerr of Upper Berkeley Street, Portman Square, London, who, in 1800, married Rev. J.W. Bourke, later Vicar of St. Martins, Shropshire. They had one child, a boy, who went sailing on a river while at college and drowned when his boat capsized. However, the melody itself first appears in Perthshire fiddle-composer Daniel Dow's c. 1775 collection as "Lady Augusta Murray." The Gows printed it as "Mrs. Menzies of Culdare's (2)" The Rev. Luke Donnellan's Connaght reel "Strawberry Beds (2) (The)" is a more distanced version of Dow's tune.
