Countess of Sutherland (1)

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Theme code Index	1H565 4322H
Also known as	Glasgow Ladys, Lady Hamilton
Composer/Core Source	George Jenkins
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
Key/Tonic of	C
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Niel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (The)
Tune and/or Page number	p. 32
Year of publication/Date of MS	1784
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COUNTESS OF SUTHERLAND [1]. AKA and see "Glasgow Ladys," "Lady Hamilton." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Skye): C Major (Hardings, Surenne). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Kerr, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Skye): AABB (Hardings). Composed by George Jenkins, a dancing master in London who may or may not have been of Scottish birth. Several writers have pointed out that many of his compositions seem to lack a genuine Scottish idiom. On the death of the 18th Earl of Sutherland, William Gordon, without male issue, the title passed to his daughter Elizabeth (1765-1839). She became the 19th Countess of Sutherland only a few weeks after her first birthday, in 1766. She married an Englishman, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford, in September, 1785, and later became Duchess when Stafford was created Duke of Sutherland in 1833. Elizabeth was a distinguished artist and painter. Their reputation has been marred by their ill-treatment of tenants in the matter of the Highland clearances, initiated to "improve" their estates by displacing people in favour of sheep. She is said to have pursued the depopulation of her lands with "vigour and cruel thoroughness," so that "her name is still reviled in many homes with Highland connections across the world today." Karl Marx wrote an article condemning her practices, entitled "The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery" (The People's Paper, March 12, 1853). See also the related Irish reels "Tansey's Favourite [1]," "The Bloom of Youth," "Doctor Taylor," "The Downshire Reel," and "Gardiner's Favourite [1]."

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 242. Gow (The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 32. Harding's All Round Collection, 1905; No. 30, p. 9. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 264 (arranged for string quintet). Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 3; No. 174, p. 20. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 148. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 288. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; p. 19.

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T:Countess of Sutherland [1]
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S:Surenne - Dance Music of Scotland, pg. 19   (1852)
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e | c2 Gc AcGc | FcEc Ddde | c2 Gc Aagf | egdf ecce | c2 Gc AcGc | 
FcEc Ddde | c2 Gc Aagf | egdf ecc || (3g/a/b/ | c'geg fadf | egce dGGb | 
c'geg fadf | egfd eccb | c'geg fadf | egce dGGg | agab c'agf | egdf ecc ||