Annotation:Lady St. Clair Dysart's Strathspey
X:1 T:Lady St. Clair Dysart's Strathspey C:James Walker (1771-1840), Dysart M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey B:James Walker - Collection of new Scots reels, strathspeys, jigs, &c. (c. 1795, p. 1) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Bmin (dB)|A3FE2D2 F2E2- E2FG|A3BA3F d3cd3B|AF3E3D F2E2E2D2|B,3BB3^A B6:| Bc|d3ef3e d2c2B2A2|B3cd3B A2F2E2D2|d3ef3e d2c2B2A2|f3ef3d TB4 (B2c2)| d3ef3e d2c2B2A2|BABc d3B A2F2E2D2|e3fd3f c3fB3f|B,3BB3^A B3||
LADY ST. CLAIR DYSART'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady St. Clair Dysart's Strathspey" was composed by biography:James Walker (1771-1840), a fiddler-composer and music teacher of Dysart, Fife, Scotland. His second collection was dedicated to Lady St. Clair Erskine, spouse of soldier and politician wikipedia:James_St_Clair-Erskine,_2nd_Earl_of_Rosslyn, to whom he dedicated his first collection. In 1789 Erskine inherited the Rosslyn and Dysart estates from his cousin James Paterson St Clair, and adopted the name St Clair before his own surname. Lady St. Clair Erskine was Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Edward Bouverie, who married Erskine in 1790 with issue of a daughter and two sons. Born in 1771, she died in August 1810.
