Annotation:Miss Johnston of Hilton's Fancy
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MISS JOHNSTON OF HILTON'S FANCY. Scottish, Jig. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), third son of the renowned Dunkeld, Perthshire, fiddler-composer Niel Gow. The beautiful and celebrated Miss Louisa “Lucy” Johnston of Hilton (c. 1760-1797), daughter of Wayne Johnstone of Hilton, was a distinguished amateur musician and dancer, and one of six girls in a family of eleven.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1788; p. 22.
Recorded sources: Scottish Records 33 SR 135, Ron Gonnella - "Scottish Violin Music from the Gow Collections" (1973).