Annotation:Miss Maule’s Strathspey

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X:1 T:Miss Maule’s Strathspey M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey C:Robert Mackintosh B:Petrie – Second Collection of Strathspey Reels &c. (1796, p. 3) N:”Humbly dedicated to Mrs. Garden of Troup by Robert N:Petrie at Kirkmichael.” F: http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/5/57/IMSLP559819-PMLP901954-rob_petrie_second_collection_118402151.23.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A E2|{AB}c4 A3E FA3EC3|{AB}c4 A3E F2(B2B2d2)|Tc3B A3E FA3EC3|D3FEG3 AA3A2:| e2|ce3a3e f3aed3|ce3a3c {Bc}d(B3B2c)d|ce3 a3e f3aec3|df3Te3d c(A3A3e)| ce3a3e fa3ed3|ce3a2c2 {Bc}d2(B2B2c)d|ce3df3 ea3gb3|af3e3d c2A2A2||

MISS MAULE('S STRATHSPEY). Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. An 18th century composition by Robert ‘Red Rob’ MacIntosh. The strathspey appears in Kirkmichael, Perthshire, fiddler and composer Robert Petrie's Second Collection (1795), a volume dedicated to his employer, Mrs. Garden of Troup. The melody is among the more popular of Biography:Robert Mackintosh’s compositions on Cape Breton Island. See note for “Mr. Maule’s Frolick” for more on the Maule family.

Additional notes
Source for notated version : - Francis MacDonald (b. 1940, Morell Rear, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].

Printed sources : - Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 68, p. 31. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 145. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 181. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 194. Petrie (Second Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances), 1795; p. 3.

Recorded sources : - Breton Books and Records BOC 1HO, Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald - “Classic Cuts” (reissue of Celtic Records CX 17). RC2000, George Wilson – “The Royal Circus” (2000). Rounder Records , John L. MacDonald – “Formerly of Foot Cape Road: Scottish Fiddle Music in the Classic Inverness County Style” (2005).

See also listing at :
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [2]

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