Annotation:Miss Clementina Stewart’s Reel (2)

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MISS CLEMENTINA STEWART [2]. Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in Biography:Malcolm MacDonald's 1789 2nd Collection, dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane. Clementina was the daughter of Sir John Stewart, 4th Bart. of Grandtully and Clementina Stewart, daughter of Charles Stewart of Ballechin (d. 1789); John and Clemantina were married in 1749 (Grantully is a small village in Perthshire, Scotland). The Clementina Stewart who was the person of the title was named for her mother, and was sister of Sir George Stewart, 17th of Grandtully, 5th Baronet. There were numerous tunes composed in honor of the family. Clementina married Alexander Moray, 14th of Abercairny, and, after he died she became the wife of James Alexander Seton (of St. Vincent), and later of Edinburgh, himself a widower. Clemantina and new husband James had a son named Alexander Moray Seton who, by 1790, was a landowner by Royal Grant on the Island of St. Vincent, along with his brother, James. He died on the Island of St. Vincent in 1795 during the final Carib revolt. See also “Miss Stewart of Grantully (1).”

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 32. MacDonald (A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels), 1789; p. 5.

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