Annotation:Dunira Lodge
X:1 T:Dunnira Lodge C:Miss Magdelina Stirling M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:John Bowie – “Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.” B:(Edinburgh, c. 1789, p. 17) F: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104982604 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D V:1 D2|FA3 A3B A3F d3B|A3FTE3D B,E3E2G2|DFA2 A3B A3F d3B|AF3TE3D A,2D2D2:| d2|A3df3d A3d f2df|a3bTa3f fe3e3f|A3df3d A3d f2df|agab a3g fd3d3f| A3df3d A3d f2df|a3ba3f fe3 e3a/g/|fa3e3f d3Bd3B|A3FE3D A,2D2D2|| V:2 clef = bass z2|D,4F,2G,2 F,2D,2 F,2G,2|F,2D,2 C,2D,2 G,2E,2 A,2z2|z2D,2F,2G,2 F,2D,2 F,2G,2|F,2D,2A,2A,,2 D,2D,2D,2:| z2|F,4D,4F,4D,4|F,2G,2F,2D,2 A,2A,,2A,,2z2|F,4D,4F,4D,4|F,E,F,G, A,2A,,2 D,4D,2z2| F,4D,4F,4D,4|F,2E,2F,2G,2 A,2A,,2 A,,2C,2|D,4A,4B,4G,4|F,2D,2A,2A,,2 D,4-D,2||
DUNIRA LODGE. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by "Miss M. Stirling" (Gow). Magdalene Stirling (1765–1846) was the youngest daughter of Sir William Stirling, 4th Baronet of Ardoch, and his wife Christian Erskine. A keyboard player, her compositions were frequently published long before she issued her own small collection in 1812. The were sometimes unattributed, and sometimes credited to "biography:Miss Stirling of Ardoch." She was a friend of Neil and Nathaniel Gow[1], and died unmarried.
Dunira Lodge, also called the estate of Dunira, is in Comrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was the Scottish home of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and was set against a backdrop of mountains, hills and rich lush lowland. Dundas wrote letters from there to David Scott at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. He commissioned a house there that was built by William Stirling[2] between 1803 and 1808.
- ↑ David Baptie, Musical Scotland: Past and Present, 1894, p. 181. The spelling of 'Neil' is as it appears in the book.
- ↑ William Stirling (1772-1838), architect and builder, was the eldest son of James Stirling, wright and cabinetmaker, who came of a long-established Dunblane merchant family which may have had landed connections. He is not the same person as Magdelene's father, Sir William Stirling (1729-1799).