Annotation:Mrs. Crawfurd of Donside

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MRS. CRAWFORD/CRAWFURD OF DONSIDE('S REEL). AKA and see "Sir John Shaw Stewart." Scottish, Reel. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer biography:John Riddell of Ayr and first published in his Collection of Scots Reels, Minuets & c. for the Violin (1766, p. 25). The melody was republished by the Gows as "Sir John Shaw Stewart" in First Collection, 1784 (p. 4).

The Crawfords were an influential and powerful West Borders family. See also Riddell's "Mrs. Crawford of Doneside's Minuet."

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 1), 1891; p. 18. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 187.

Recorded sources:

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