Annotation:Miss Hall of Dunglass’ Reel
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MISS HALL OF DUNGLASS’ REEL. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The melody was composed by Niel Gow Jr. (c 1795-1823), son of Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) and grandson and namesake of fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807). Niel Jr. was a promising composer who had entered his father’s publishing business in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, he died young, the year after the Sixth Collection was issued.
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The title refers perhaps to one of the three daughters of Sir James Hall (1761-1832) of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, a Scottish geologist and geophysicist, and his wife Helen Hamilton. Their daughter Eliza was mother of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a British author who became a German citizen and married composer Richard Wagner's daughter (and in whose writings the Nazi's later found support for their racial views). His daughter Magdalene Hall (1793-1822) married firstly 1815 Colonel Sir William Howe DeLancey, and secondly Captain Henry Harvey; she was author of the poignant A Week at Waterloo [1](first privately published) and died in childbirth with her third child.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (Sixth Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1822; pp. 28-29.
Recorded sources:
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