Annotation:Mrs. Oswald of Dunniker's Minuet
X:1 T:Mrs. Oswald of Dunniker's Minuet M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Minuet B: Daniel Dow – Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances (c. 1775, p. 12) B: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/106036449 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Eb [G,3E3] GBG|EGBeGB|B,3 DFD|BDFBDF|[G,4E4] (G<E)|(B<G)(E<B)(g<e)| (d<B)(e<c)(B<=A)|1 B6:|2 B3|:B2|e2 (G<E)(c<A)|B>gfd B2|f2 Bdfa| g2 {fg}efga|bg e2 za|geagfe|dcBAGF|[G3E3] GBG| B,DFBDF|[G,4E4] (G<E)|(B<G)(e<B)(g<e)|(3BcA G2 TF2|1E4:|2 6||
MRS. OSWALD OF DUNNIKER'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by Perthshire/Edinburgh fiddler-composer biography:Daniel Dow, it appears in his c. 1775 Twenty Minuets and Sixteen Reels or Country Dances. He named the tune forJanet Grey (1746-1841) of Skibo, Sutherland, who became Mrs. Oswald in 1764 when she married Scottish politician James Townsend Oswald (1748-1814) died in 1843. Their son was General Sir John Oswaldand their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Janet outlived her husband several decades and died in 1841.
