Annotation:Lady Balcarras

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{{TuneAnnotation |f_tune_annotation_title= https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Lady_Balcarras > |f_annotation=LADY BALCARRAS. Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Ayrshire fiddler-composer [[biography:Robert Riddell]'s (1718-1795) second collection (p. 57), printed in Glasgow by James Aird. This collection, printed in Edinburgh in 1782, was a second edition, "greatly improved" of his original collection, published around the year 1766.

Elizabeth Dalrymple Lindsay, the Countess of Balcarres, was a patron of Edinburgh musicians and was herself an accomplished keyboard player. She composed tunes, one of which, "Lady Eliza Lindsay," a hornpipe written for her ten-year-old daughter, was published in John Watlen's 1791 collection. See note for "Annotation:Lady Elizabeth Lindsay" for more on the subject. |f_source_for_notated_version= |f_printed_sources=Riddell (Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets, &c., 2nd edition), 1782; p. 59. |f_recorded_sources= |f_see_also_listing= }}

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