Annotation:Miss Maria Dundas
X:1 T:Miss Maria Dundas Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:J. Anderson - Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances B: for the German Flute or Violin (Edinburgh, 1820, p. 19) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G g|dG G/G/G (d2 Bd)|(eg).f.g (dB).B.g|dG G/G/G (d2 Bd)|egdB A2A|| a|(g/a/b) (ab) geeg|(dg).B.g (dB).B.d|(g/a/b) (ab) geeg|dgdB A/A/A a2| (g/a/b) (ab) geeg|dgBg GABd|(gb).a.b (ga).e.g|dBgB A2 A||
MISS MARIA DUNDAS. AKA - "Maria Dundas." Scottish, Reel. G Major (Athole, Kerr): F Major (Athole, Carlin, Gow, Little). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Gow, Little): AABB (Kerr). Attributed to Biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) in the Fourth Collection (1800). The Maria Dudas (1787-) of the title perhaps the Maria who was the 2nd daughter of West Lothian landowner George Dundas, 24th of Dundas, and Christian Stirling. She married Robert Cunnyngham. Her father was a captain on an East Indiaman, but was lost off the coast of Madagascar in 1793 when his ship foundered.
