Annotation:Miss Jessy Stewart's Reel

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MISS JESSY STEWART’S REEL. AKA – “Miss Jessy Stewart’s Strathspey.” AKA and see "Miss Hay's Scottish, Reel or Strathspey. G Minor (McGlashan, Surenne): G Dorian (MacDonald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (MacDonald, McGlashan). Composed by Malcolm MacDonald as "Miss Jessy Stewart's Reel", first printed in his Collection of Strathspey Reels (1788), dedicated to Mrs. Baird of Newbyth.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacDonald (Collection of Strathspey Reels, vol. 1); p. 10. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; p. 23. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 54.

Recorded sources:

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