Annotation:Mr. George Grant’s Strathspey

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MR. GEORGE GRANT’S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. E Major/Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831). See also another Gow tune dedicated to Grant, “Compliments to George Grant.”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 64. Gow (Fourth Collection of Strathspey Dances), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 36.

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