Template:Featured Tune
X:1
T:Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth (1)
M:C
L:1/8
R:Strathspey
S:MacDonald – Second Collection of Strathspey Reels (1789)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Amin
a | A<A Te>d B<d Te2 | d<gB<g d<gB<G | A<ATe<d B<de<(g | a>)eg>B A2A :|
g | a<ae<a c<a e2 | g<gd<g Bg d2 | a<ae<a c<ae<g | a<eg<B {B}A2 Ag |
a<ae<a c<a Te2 |g<gd<g B<g d2 | a<ae<a g<be<g | a<eg<B {B}A2A ||
Full annotations for this tune
MISS SARAH DUMMOND OF PERTH (1). AKA and see “Calum Crubach,” “Danse Écossaise,” “Devil Shake the Half-Breed (2),” “Gurren’s Castle,” "Miss Drummond of Perth (1),” “Mountain Reel (4)," “Our Highland Cousins,” “Paddy Joe’s Highland Fling,” “Perth Highland Fling (The),” "Prince of Wales Jig (The),” “Titanic Highland (The),” “Yorkshire Bite (1)." Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard tuning. AAB. Composer credit for the tune was claimed by Niel Gow {1727-1807} (in his 1807 Third Collection, second edition), however the tune appears under the full title (i.e. referencing Sarah Drummond) in Malcolm MacDonald's 2nd collection (1789, the volume dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane). No composer was given credit to MacDonald by Gow. It also appears in John and Andrew Gow’s A Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels (London, c. 1795). Andrew (1760-1803) and younger brother John (1764-1826), sons of Niel, established a publishing business in London in 1788 and were the English distributors for the Gow family musical publications. The melody has currency among Cape Breton fiddlers. In Donegal it is set as a Highland (see, for example, Hugh Gillespie’s “Gurren’s Castle”) or as a fling. Quebec fiddler Joseph Allard recorded the tune as “Danse Écossaise.”
