Annotation:Lady Ann Stewart's Strathspey
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LADY ANN STEWART'S STRATHSPEY. AKA - "Lady Ann Stewart." Scottish, Strathspey. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Ann Stewart's Strathspy" was also entered (as "Lady Ann Steuart") into the music copybook [1] of John Buttery (1784-1854), a fifer with the 37th Regiment, British army, who served from 1797-1814 and who late in life emigrated to Canada. Buttery's manuscript collection has also been identified as belonging to John Fife [1], with a suggested date of 1780. Fife was a family name, like Buttery, identified with the manuscript. Buttery set the tune as a reel rather than as a strathspey, in the fife-friendly key of 'G'.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances), c. 1820; p. 17. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository Book 3), 1885; p. 246. Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book, vol. 1), 1844, p. 15. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 74-75.
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- ↑ Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/Index.htm