Annotation:Lady Dunbar of Northfield's Reel
X:1 T:Lady Dunbar of Northfield's Reel C:William Christie (1778-1849) N:Christie was a dancing master, fiddler N:and composer from Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire. M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Con Spirito" B:Christie - Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, B:Waltzes &c. (Edinburgh, 1820, p. 22) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb F|~B2 dc (BA).G.F|GE ec (dc).B.A|BdfB Acfc|dBcA T(B>A)GF|.G.E.e.E .F.D.d.D| (EC)FE (ED).C.B,|.C.D.E.F .G.A.B.c|dBcA B3|| f|dBfd bfdB|c(fTf=e) ~f2 ga|bgab afga|(bg) =eg (f_e).d.c| dBbB cAaA|(BG) cB (BA).G.F|GE eE FD ce|dBcA B3||
LADY DUNBAR OF NORTHFIELD'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Lady Dunbar of Northfield's Reel" was composed by biography:William Christie (1778-1849), a dancing master, postman, song collector and fiddler-composer of Cuminestown, Aberdeenshire. Lady Dunbar was Helen Penuel Cumming-Gordon (1777-1819), daughter of Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 1st Baronet, and Helen Grant, of Rafford, Moray, and one of a number of siblings (not all of whom survived to adulthood). She married Sir Archibald Dunbar, 6th Bt of Northfield. The couple themselves had thirteen children.
