Annotation:Lady Belhaven's Delight

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LADY BELHAVEN'S DELIGHT. Scottish, Jig. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is a jig setting of William Marshall's strathspey "Mrs. Hamilton of Wishaw's Strathspey." Strathspeys can fairly easily be rendered as jigs by converting each bar into two 6/8 bars. It is curious, remarks Emmerson (1971), that there is little mention of such transformations in Scottish musical literature.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 339. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 34.

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