Annotation:Lady Shaftesbury

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LADY SHAFTSBURY('S STRATHSPEY). AKA - "Lady Shaftsbury Reel," "Lady Shaftsbury's Delight." AKA and see "Greenend Park," "Kelly's Goat." Scottish, Slow Strathspey. E Flat Major (Gow, Howe, MacDonald, Stewart-Robertson): B Flat Major (Wilson): A Major (Kennedy). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (most versions). The composition has been credited to Edinburgh publisher, teacher, composer, fiddler and bandleader Nathaniel Gow. It is said to have been first published by Biography:Malcolm MacDonald, who later reprinted in his Second Collection of 1797 under the title "Greenend Park." McDonald was the bass player in Gow's band at the time and probably heard him playing the tune, perhaps not realizing it was composed by him. John Glen (1895), however, believes it was Gow who stole the tune. "Lady Shaftsbury's Strathspey" appears, set in the key of D major, in the music manuscript book of John Rook (1840, p. 196). The melody surfaced in America as a fife air called "Kelly's Goat" (Bayard, 1981; No. 148, pg. 82-83), but was included under the "Lady Shaftsbury" title in the music copybook manuscript of William Patten or around 1800 (probably from Philadelphia). Howe prints the tune set as a reel.

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Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 105. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1792; p. 15. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 146. Kennedy (Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants), 1997; No. 99, p. 25. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 131. Preston (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 271. Surenne (Dance Music of Scotland), 1852; pp. 14-15. Wilson (Companion to the Ballroom), 1815; p. 61 (appears as "Old Scotch").

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