Annotation:Lady Belhaven's Delight

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X:1 T:Lady Belhaven's Delight M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:"Slowish" B:Gow - Fourth Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1800) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A E|A2A A2c|{c}B2G E2G|A2E c2A|(B3 B2)c| A2A A2F|~G2A Bcd|TF2B {A}GFE|A3 A2:| |e|{g}a2e (ag)b|a2f {f}e2c|A2A Tc2e|f2B B2g| a2e (ag).b|{g}a2f {f}e2c|E2E EFG|{G}A3 A (e/4f/4g/)| a2e (ag).b|{g}a2f {f}e2c|A2A ~c2e|f2B Bcd| ~c2e e2a|d2f f2b|(ec)A EFG|{G}A3 A2||

LADY BELHAVEN'S DELIGHT. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is a jig setting of William Marshall's strathspey "Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw’s Strathspey." Strathspeys can fairly easily be rendered as jigs by converting each duple time bar into two 6/8 bars. It is curious, remarks Emmerson (1971), that there is little mention of such transformations in Scottish musical literature.

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Source for notated version: -

Printed sources : - Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 339. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 34.

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