Annotation:Lady Gordon Cumming's Strathspey
X:1 T:Lady Gordon Cumming’s Strathspey C:Donald Grant M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:Donald Grant – Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21, p. 28) B:The volume was perhaps first issued c. 1790, from a penciled note in a copy. N:The collection was dedicated to Mrs. Col. Grant of Grant (“Sir James and N:Lady Grant of Grant”). S: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814134 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F f2|SFF3A3F c3Faf3|FF3A3F A3GGf3|EF3A3F Tf3g {fg}a3g|f3c (dc).B.A {A}G4G2:| a2|Tf3cf3a Tf3cf3a|fc3f3A A3GG2a2|fc3~c3d Tf3g {fg}a3g|f3d (dc).B.A {A}G4 G2a2| Tf3cf3a Tfcf3a|fc3f3A A3GG3a|fc3~c3d Tf3g {fg}a3g|f3c (dc).B.A G3fef3S||
LADY GORDON CUMMING'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Gordon Cumming's Stathspey" was composed by Elgin fiddler-composer biography:Donald Grant and published in his Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs &c. (1820-21). Lady Gordon Cumming at the time of Grant's issue was Elizabeth Maria Campbell (of Islay), who married Sir William Gordon Cumming-Gordon (1787-1854), 2nd Baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown, who succeeded his father in 1806 and became, briefly, an MP for Elgin Burghs in the 1830’s. Elizabeth died in 1842, and in 1846 Sir William wed again, to Jane Eliza MacIntosh. He had fifteen children between the two women. The seat of the family was Altyre House (now demolished) in Elginshire, Moray, south of Forres.
