Annotation:Troup House
X:0 T: Troup House C: R. Petrie M: C K: Bb S: Petrie - 2nd Collection (1796) L: 1/16 F2|B3c{Bc}d3c (BA)(Bc) (ed)(cB)|B2f2 (gf)(ed) Td2c2c2F2|B3c{Bc}d3c (BA)(Bc) d3c|B2F2 fFGFE D2B,2B,2:| (de)|f3g (gf)(ed) f2(bg) (fd)(cd)|B3c Bcde Td2c2c2(de)|f3g (gf)(ed) f2(ag) f2(dc)|B3c (Bcde)Tc4{Bc}B2(de)| f3g (gf)(ed) f2(bg) (fd)(cd)|B3c Bcde Td2c2c2dc|B2d2G2B2 F2B2 (GF)(ED)|E3G FGFE D2B,2B,2|]
TROUP HOUSE. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Troup House" was composed by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer biography:Robert_Petrie (1767-1830) who was employed at Troup House and who dedicated his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances (1796), in which this tune appears, to his patron, Mrs. Garden of Troup[1]. Troup House, Gamrie parish, near the coast in Banffshire, was the estate of Mr. Alexander Troup (c. 1714-1785) and Mrs. Garden of Troup and was constructed for them around 1772. Alexander was a good businessman, a fair landlord, and an independent politician; he was an M.P. for Aberdeenshire for much of the latter 18th century until his death. He was succeeded at Troup House by the sixth Laird of Troup and Glenlyon, Francis Garden-Campbell (1768-1815). Troup House was replaced in 1897 by a new structure and is today a school.
- ↑ Petrie's 'Mrs. Garden of Troup' was Penelope (Smythe) Garden-Campbell, who married Francis Garden-Campbell in January, 1791.