Annotation:Miss Sitwell
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MISS SITWELL. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skye): AB (Athole, Gow). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), perhaps for a sister or relation of Francis Sitwell, for whom Gow also composed a strathspey (see “Master F. Sitwell”).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 155. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pp. 22-23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 128. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 288.
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