Annotation:Miss Jeanie Maxwell's Minuet
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MISS JEANIE MAXWELL'S MINUET. AKA and see "Duchess of Buccleuch's Minuet (The)." Scottish, Minuet. Composed c. 1766 by the gentleman fiddler and composer Biography:Thomas Alexander Erskine, the Sixth Earl of Kelly [1] (1732-1781). Later name of the minuet was changed the name of the tune to "Duchess of Buccleuch's Minuet (The)". See also his minuet "Miss Anne Maxwell," presumably for another member of the Maxwell family.
See also fiddler-composer John French's similarly-titled "Miss Jean Maxwell of Monreith’s Reel."
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