Annotation:Lochness Side
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LOCHNESS SIDE. Scottish, Strathspey. G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody appears in the 3rd collection of Biography:Malcolm MacDonald of Dunkeld, Perthshire, a volume dedicated to Miss Drummond of Perth. It was also printed in John and Andrew Gow's A Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys and Reels (London, c. 1795). Andrew (1760-1803) and younger brother John (1764-1826) established a publishing business in London in 1788 and were the English distributors for the Gow family musical publications.
Loch Ness [1] is a large (23 mi.) freshwater lake in Inverness-shire, at the bottom of the Great Glen of Scotland.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 24. MacDonald (A Third Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1792; p. 9.
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