Annotation:Lady Jean Lindsay's Minuet
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LADY JEAN LINDSAY'S MINUET. Scottish, Minuet (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'. Composed by Daniel Dow (1732-83) of Perthshire and Edinburgh. The tune first appeared in the (James) Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768) as "A New Minuet," and he must have later selected a patron, for it appears under the "Lady Jean" title in his 1773 collection.
The tune was perhaps composed for Lady Jean Lindsay {1756-1778}, the eldest daughter of John Lindsay-Crawford, 4th Viscount of Garnock and later 21st Earl of Crawford. The beautiful Jean was married at the age of 16 (in 1772) to Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton, but only lived another six years. She died without issue and he married again.
Source for notated version: the James Gillespie MS, Perth, 1768; p. 88 [Johnson].
Printed sources: Johnson (Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century), 1984; No. 62, p. 154.
Recorded sources: Marquis Classics, Puirt a Baroque - "Kinloch's Fantasy" (1997).