Annotation:Lady Mary Hayes' Scottish Measure
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LADY MARY HAYES' SCOTTISH MEASURE. AKA - "Lady Mary Hay's Scotch Measure." Scottish, Reel. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCDD (Hunter, Lerwick): AABCCDD' (Gow). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) a Scottish fiddler, composer, music publisher and bandleader; a son of the famous Niel Gow. Lady Mary Turner Hay was born in Hatton in February, 1786, the daughter of Lord George Hay and Hannah Charlotte Maitland.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 101. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1792; p. 27 (3rd ed.). Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 324. Lerwick (The Kilted Fiddler), 1985; p. 16-17.
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