Annotation:Lady Charlotte Percy’s Scotch Measure

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LADY CHARLOTTE PERCY'S SCOTCH MEASURE. Scottish, Scotch Measure (Country Dance) (cut time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Scottish dancing master and musician Biography:Duncan MacIntyre (c. 1767-1807), who established a practice in Edinburgh, but who moved to London in the 1790's. It was in the English city that he published his 1794 collection, dedicated to Lady Charlotte Campbell.

Portrait of Lady Charlotte Percy, Countess of Ashburnham by Sir John Hoppner

The tune's title honors, perhaps, Lady Charlotte Percy (1776-1862), a daughter of the 1st Earl of Beverley and a sister of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland. In 1795 she became the second wife of George Ashburnham (1760–1830), 3rd Earl of Ashburnham and resided primarily at the ancient family seat of Ashburnham Place in Sussex. The couple had thirteen children (plus four from his first marriage), all except one surviving to adulthood.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: MacIntyre (A Collection of Slow Airs, Reels and Strathspeys), 1794; p. 7.

Recorded sources:




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