Annotation:Countess of Sutherland's Strathspey (The)

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COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND'S STRATHSPEY, THE. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Although Alexander McGlashan published it more than twenty-five years before she did, the strathspey is the composition of Magdalene Stirling (1765-1846), the youngest daughter of Sir William Stirling, 4th Baronet of Ardoch, Perthshire, and his wife Christian Erskine. Her tunes were often published (sometimes attributed to "biography:Miss Stirling of Ardoch") by others before she issued them in a small volume called Twelve Tunes in 1812. Magdalene never married.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), 1786; p. 45. Stirling (Twelve Tunes)l, 1812.

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