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X:1 T:Sir Alexander Don's [2] M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey S:Gow – First Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1784) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A,|D<D D>F TE>DEF|D<D D>F A3d|D<D D>F TE>DEF| D>B,B,>A, D3A,|D<D D>F TE>DEF|D<D D>F A3d| D<D D>F E>DEF|D<B, ~B,>A, D3||B|A<F F>D FEEF| A<F F>D F3B| A<F F>D TE>DEF|D<B,TB,>A, D3B|A<F F>D TFEEF| AFFD [D3B3] (c/d/)|(B/A/G/F/) (G/F/E/D/) TE>DEF|D<B,TB,>A, D3||

SIR ALEXANDER DON [2]. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Gow): AAB (Campbell). "From the Opera of Rosina" (Gow). Rosina (1782) was a very successful comic opera by the once-popular English light composer William Shield (1748-1829). “Sir Alexander Don” is the theme from the overture, and sounds quite like “Coming Through the Rye.”

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Printed sources : - Joshua Campbell (A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys), Glasgow, 1789; p. 45. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 212. Gow (The First Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1784 (revised 1801); p. 10.

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