Annotation:Corrimony's Strathspey (2)
X:1 T:Corrimony's Strathspey [2] C:R. Petrie S:Petrie's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. Z:Steve Wyrick <sjwyrick'at'astound'dot'net>, 6/5/04 N:Petrie's Second Collection, page 13 L:1/8 M:C R:Strathspey K:G B|A<DA>F d>FA<B|A<DA>F D>FG>B |A<DA>F d<FA>B|d>fe>g fdd:| g|f2 d>f g>ef<d|e>df>d g<e=c<e|f2d>f g<ef<d|e/e/e e/e/e fddg| f2 d>f g<ef<d|e>df<d g=ceg |f<ae<f d>ef<d|A<FA>g fdd|]
CORRIMONY'S STRATHSPEY [2]. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was published by Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer biography:Robert Petrie in his Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances, 1796 (p. 13). As with Simon Fraser's "Corrimony," the tune probably honors James Grant of Corrimony (1743?-1835), Urquhart, Inverness-shire, a Scotch advocate and one of a line of distinguished 'James Grants' in the family. He was admitted advocate in 1767. Being early distinguished for his liberal politics, he numbered among his friends Henry Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, Francis Jeffrey, Leonard Horner, and other eminent men. He died father of the Scottish bar in 1835 at Lakefield, Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, at age ninety-two. Grant was the author of the 'Origin of Society (1785), and Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael (1814).
