Annotation:Mr. Ronald Crawford’s
Tune properties and standard notation
MR. RONALD CRAWFORD. AKA – “Mr. Ronald Crawford’s Strathspey.” Scottish, Slow Strathspey (2/4 time) or Lament. F Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC’DD. Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1727-1807), to be played “very slow, with expression.”
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Gow (The Beauties of Niel Gow), 1819. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; pp. 24-25 (3rd ed.).
Recorded sources: