Annotation:Duchess of Buccleugh (3)

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DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUGH [3]. AKA and see "Dutchess of Buccleugh's Favorite," "Shoemaker's Daughter (1), "Souter's Daughter (The)." Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Angus Cumming's 1780 collection (p. 4 as "The Dutchess of Buccleugh's Reell"), however the tune had earlier appeared in Neil Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels &c. (1761) as "Souter's Daughter (The)." As "Dutchess of Buccleugh's Favorite" the tune was printed by the Gows and credited to fiddler-composer Niel Gow. A version of the tune was used as the air to poet Robert Burns's song "Wilt Thou be My Dearie" printed in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 5 (1797).

The strathspey is printed by Kerr just above "Duke of Buccleuch (2) (The)" on the page. See note for "annotation: Dutchess of Buccleugh's Favorite" for more.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 4; No. 153, p. 18.

Recorded sources:



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