Annotation:Miss Burnet's Reel

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MISS BURNET'S REEL. AKA and see "Miss Jane Stewart," "Miss Jane Stewart's Strathspey--Pittyvaich (1)," "Miss Jane Campbell's Strathspey," "Johnny Pringle" {Gow's title}. Scottish, Strathspey. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833) and first published in an attachement (c. 1788) to his 1781 First Collection; in 1822 Marshall included it in his 1822 collection under the title "Miss Jane Stewart's Pittyvaich." It was called "Johnny Pringle" by Gow when he published it in his Repository, Part Third, 1806, undoubtedly in honor of one John Pringle who had published the melody in 1801 under the title "Miss Jane Campbell's Strathspey." Miss Burnet was the daughter of James Burnet (1714-1799), Lord Monboddo, and tragically died in “the bloom of her youth”, although not before being immortalized by being included among the subjects of several 18th century paintings. Her father, the Lord, was a man of letters and at the center of Edinburgh intelligencia of the time; he postulated a theory of the origin of the species prior to Darwin (Cowie, 1999).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 58, p. 86 ('A' part only).

Recorded sources:

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