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If in fact the 'Countess of Loudoun' title was meant, it may have been in honor of Flora Muir (Mure) Campbell (1780-1840), only child and daughter of Major-General James Muir Campbell and Flora MacLeod (daughter of MacLeod of Raasay), who in 1804 married the Earl of Moira (created Marquis of Hastings in 1816).

The Blackthorn Stick

Played by: Angharad James
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Image: Loudoun Castle.

Countess of Louden's Reel

AKA - Countess of Loudon's Reel. AKA and see Blackthorn Stick (4) (The), Countess of Lothean's Reel (The), Irishman's Blackthorn Stick, Mahon's Reel, Rising Sun (2) (The).

Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Lerwick): AB (Cole). The melody was first published in Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie's Collection of Strathspey Reels & Country Dances &c. (Edinburgh, c. 1789, as Countess of Loudon's Reel), followed by James Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1797, p. 16) under the title Countess of Lothean's Reel (The).

Nigel Gatherer remarks that the reel has similarities with "Kitty Clyde's." Irish versions are numerous, see the "Jolly Clam-diggers (1) (The)"/"Blackthorn Stick (4) (The)" family of tunes.

The 'Countess of Louden' (spellings vary) title for the tune was used by multi-instrumentalist John Rook (Waverton, Cumbria) in his large 1840 music manuscript collection, and also in William Bradbury Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), a publication of the Boston-based Elias Howe firm.

British titles did not always transfer intact to the Howe publications, and although there was a Countess of Lothian and a Countess of Loudoun, it may be that the 'Louden' [sic] title is simply a miss-hearing of 'Lothian' (as it appears in Aird's 1797 publication).

...more at: The Blackthorn Stick - full Score(s) and Annotations

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