Annotation:Miss Downie's Strathspey

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MISS DOWNIE'S STRATHSPEY. AKA and see "Honest Duncan," "Garden Shiel." Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The strathspey was composed by Biography:Duncan MacIntyre, an expatriate Scottish dancing master in London who published the tune in 1794 with the title "Miss Downie's Strathspey." As "Honest Duncan" it was published by the Gows in Repository, Part Second (1802), and it was called "Garden Shiel" by the musician and collector Robert Petrie.

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