Annotation:Miss Mary Garden (Delgaty's) Reel
X:1 T:Miss Mary Garden (Delgaty's) Reel C:R. Petrie S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/11/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 15 L:1/8 M:C R:Reel K:Amix f|eAcA aAcA|Bgdg BGdB|eAcA aecA|dfed cAAf| eAcA aAcA|Bgdg BGdB|AAcA dBcA|afea cAA|| ^g|(Ta^ga)e ceaf|gfgd BGdB|(Ta^ga)e ceaf|gdBe cAA^g| (Ta^ga)e ceaf|gfgd BGdB|cAdB ecaf|gdBe cAA|]
MISS MARY GARDEN (DELGATY’S) REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. One of several tunes composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie (1767-1830) for the Garden family. His Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances (1796), in which this melody appears (p. 15), was dedicated to his patron and employer, Mrs. Garden of Troup, Banffshire. The Delgaty estate in Aberdeenshire had come into the hands of the Garden family in the 1760’s.
