Annotation:Miss Jessie Dalrymple
X:1 T:Miss Dalrymple's Reel T:Miss Jessie Dalrymple M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Joshua Campbell – A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys (Glasgow, 1789, p. 23) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bb A|B2 (dB) (fB)(dB)|(Gc)(ec) (gc)(ec)|(3Acf (af) bgaf|(=e/f/g) ce fFF:| E|(D/E/F) (BF) Geeg|FdDF ECce|(D/E/F) (BF) GEce|T(dc/B/) (FA) BB,B,E| (D/E/F) BF GEeg|FBDF ECce|DFBb acdg|fBAe dBB||
MISS JESSIE DALRYMPLE. AKA and see "Miss Dalrymple's Reel, "Miss Stevenson's Reel." Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:Robert Mackintosh. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's 1761 Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (p. 51) and Mackintosh's Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels (1783, p. 35). Mackintosh reprinted the reel in his Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels (c. 1804) under the title "Miss Stevenson's Reel."
Joshua Campbell printed the reel in his 1789 collection under the title "Miss Dalrymple's Reel."
If Mackintosh is the composer then the reel's appearance in Neil Stewart's collection that is often dated 1761 may be problematic. Mackintosh was bors around the year 1745, making him aged 16 in 1761. It is not impossible, of course, that "Miss Jessie Dalrymple" was an early composition, but it should be considered that Stewart's volume was issue later than 1761.
