Annotation:Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston’s Jig

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MISS SALLY HUNTER OF THURSTON'S JIG. AKA - "Sally Hunter of Thurston." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. A popular jig composed by Edinburgh fiddler-composer and bandleader biography:Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831) whose dance band was resident in the city's Assembly Rooms for three decades, and whose reputation extended to London. Thurston House was a country estate near Dunbar in East Lothian held at the time of publication of Gow's Third Collection (1792) by Robert Hunter. 'Sally' probably refers to Sarah Hunter, the only child from Robert's second marriage to Margaret Robertson.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 74, p. 30. Carlin (The Gow Collecton), 1986; No. 372. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 3rd ed., originally 1792; p. 33. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 293. MacDonald (Skye Collection), 1887; p. 177.

Recorded sources: Ian MacDougall – “From Foot Cape.” Alia Vox AVSA 9878, Jordi Savall - "The Celtic Viol. II" (2010). Scottish Records SR 33 135, Ron Gonnella – “Scottish Violin Music from the Gow Collections” (1973).