Annotation:Miss Augusta Murray Ochtertyre's Strathspey
X:1 T:Miss Augusta Murray Ochtertyre’s Strathspey M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:John Bowie - "Four New Tunes" (c. 1797) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb B,2 B,F DFB,<F|B,D/E/ FD E<CCD|B,2 B,F D<FB,<F|G<BA<c F<B TB2:| F<BB>{c}d c<G TG2|F<Bd<B fBd<B|B<F{Bc}d>c B<FB<G|F<D CF/E/ DB,B,2| F<BB>{c}d c<G TG2|F<Bd<B fBd<B|BF (G/F/).E/.D/ E>F {EF}G>E|FD CF/E/ DB,B,2||
MISS AUGUSTA MURRAY OCTERTYRE'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune is claimed and credited to Tibbermore, Perthshire, fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie (1759-1815). It is a different tune than the similarly-titled "Miss Murray of Auchtertyre's Strathspey, published in 1799 by the Gows, but also credited by them to John Bowie. Researcher Paul Cooper searched Bowie's collections for the latter tune, but did not find it among his published works; however, Bowie himself claimed it in his advertising:
