Annotation:Dunira Lodge

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DUNIRA LODGE. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by "Miss M. Stirling" (Gow). Magdalene Stirling (1765–1846) was the youngest daughter of Sir William Stirling, 4th Baronet of Ardoch, and his wife Christian Erskine. A keyboard player, her compositions were frequently published long before she issued her own small collection in 1812. The were sometimes unattributed, and sometimes credited to "biography:Miss Stirling of Ardoch." She died unmarried.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 47. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 3), 1806; p. 11. Stirling (Twelve Tunes), 1812; p. 4.

Recorded sources: Rounder Records, Theresa Morrison – "Lake Bras d'Or" (2005).

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