Annotation:Miss Isabella Ellis's Jig
X:1 T:Miss Isabella Ellis's Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 11) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:C G|c2c cde|dBG GAB|cBc GcA|GEC C2G| c2c cde|dBG GAB|cBc GAB|c3 c2:| d|gag gfe|dBG GAB|cde def|edd d2e| gag gfe|dBG GAB|cBc GAB|c3 c2e| gag gfe|dBG GAB|cde def|edd d2e| gag gfe|dBG GAB|cde dcB|c3 c2||
MISS ISABELLA ELLIS'S JIG. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Isabella Ellis's Jig" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
