Annotation:Miss Maria Dundas
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MISS MARIA DUNDAS. AKA - "Maria Dundas." Scottish, Reel. G Major (Athole, Kerr): F Major (Athole, Carlin, Gow, Little). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Athole, Gow, Little): AABB (Kerr). Attributed to Biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) in the Fourth Collection (1800). The Maria Dudas (1787-) of the title perhaps the Maria who was the 2nd daughter of West Lothian landowner George Dundas, 24th of Dundas, and Christian Stirling. She married Robert Cunnyngham. Her father was a captain on an East Indiaman, but was lost off the coast of Madagascar in 1793 when his ship foundered.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Anderson (Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances), c. 1820; p. 19. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 274. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; p. 21. Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 2; No. 125, p. 15. Little (Scottish and Cape Breton Fiddling in New Hampshire), 1984; p. 7. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pp. 168 & 235.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recordings Index [1]