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NATHANIEL GOW. Scottish, Slow ("when not danced") Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by biography:Duncan MacIntyre in honor of Biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), Scottish fiddler, composer, music publisher and bandleader; 3rd son of famed fiddle-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). Originally an Edinburgh musician, music teacher and dancing master, MacIntyre removed to London in the last decade of the 18th century, where he practiced his trade. Unfortunately, very little is known about him save that he published two collections when in London, and that he likely journeyed to India around 1806 or 1807, probably as a Master of Ceremonies to the Governor-General's Court. He seems to have expired soon after arrival in that country.

Nathaniel Gow published several of his tunes in the Fifth Collection (1809), and he was known to John and Andrew Gow in the London office of the Gow publishing concerns. What relationship they may have had is unknown but it appears to have been cordial, based upon the exchange of compositional courtesies.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 195. Gow (Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1809; p. 35. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 163.

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