Annotation:Norea's Scots Measure
X:1 T:Norea's Scots Measure M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Brisk" B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V (1760, p. 6) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G2G4 dB|A2 e4 dc|B2ge dBAc|B2 GB AF D2| G2 G4 dB|A2 e4 dc|B2 ge dBAc|B2G2G2:| |:f|gfga bg e2|fefg af d2|efge fgaf|bagf e3g| dBAB dB d2|ed e2 g3a|bgab agea|gedB AGAB| G2 G4 dB|ABcd egfa|g2 fe dBcA|B2G2 G3:|| |:D|GBdB dB g2|Acec ecac|Bdef gdcB|a^fgB AFED| GBdB dB g2|Ac e2ce a2|gbaf gdec|B2G2G3:| |:f|gb Tb2 fa Ta2|egfa {e}^d2 (^cB)|eBfB gBaB|bagf e2 fg| dBAB dBde|gdeg {ga}b3a|bgeb afdf|gBgB AcBA| GBdB dB g2|Ac e2 ce a2|gbag fgde|B2G2 G3:|]
NOREA'S SCOTS MEASURE. Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The tune was claimed by cellist and composer James Oswald in the index to the Caledonian Pocket Companion. Wikipedia:James Oswald (composer) (1710–1769) had become a widower in 1756, but found another love in Lenora Robinson Lytton. She herself became widowed in 1762 and secretly married Oswald, either very daringly or secretly, as she was an aristocrat and he was a drummers son. Nevertheless, the union seems to have been a happy one; two of Oswald's daughters named their own daughters after her. Oswald composed three tunes for Norea--a contraction of Lenora--“Norea's Scots Measure”, “Norea's Wish” and “Norea's Lost to me”. She died in 1790.
When Leonora was widowed in 1762, she married Oswald – probably secretly. It wouldn’t do for an aristocrat to be known to have married a town drummer’s son, but the banns were called on three separate weeks in 1766, and on May 17 they were married.
