Annotation:Lady Charlotte Campbell's Strathspey (2)
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LADY CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL'S STRATHSPEY [2]. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB' (Kerr). Composition of the tune is credited to Robert 'Red Rob' MacIntosh (b. 1745), who published the tune in 1793 (and who undoubtedly acquired his nickname because of having red hair). The Gows republished the melody in their Repository (Part Second), 1802, under the same title but without crediting MacIntosh. The companion reel is "Lady Charlotte Campbell's Reel (2)." It is one of Mackintosh's more popular melodies among Cape Breton fiddlers.
Source for notated version: Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources: Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 506. Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 111, p. 46. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 173. S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 36. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 208, p. 23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 190. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 282.
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