Annotation:Mrs. Bisset's Strathspey
X:1 T:Mrs. Bisset’s Strathspey M:C| L:1/16 R:Strathspey B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 6) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:Bb F2|TB3cB2F2 B2c2d2g2|f2d2d2B2 c2B2c2d2|TB3cB2F|B2c2d2g2|f2d2c2d2 BBB2 B2:| B2|f2g2f2d2 Tc3Bc2d2|g2f2g2a2 b2f2g2b2|Tf3gf2c2 d2g2f2d2|Tc3Bc2d2 BBB2B4| Tf3gf2d2 Tc3Bc2d2|Tg2f2g2a2 b3fgb3|g2b2f2g2 d2g2f2d2|Tc3Bc2d2 BBB2 B2||
MRS. BISSET'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Bisset's Strathspey" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
