Annotation:Mrs. Oswald of Auchincruive’s Strathspey (3)

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MRS. OSWALD OF AUCHINCRUIVE’S STRATHSPEY [3]. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Robert Mackintosh (1745-1807), appearing in his A Third Book of Sixty-Eight New Reels and Strathspeys: Also above forty old Famous Reels (Edinburgh, 1796). See note for “Miss Johnston of Hilton’s Fancy” for more on Lucy Oswald. Mackintosh also composed another tune in her honor -- see "Mrs. Oswald of Auchincruives—New (2)."

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Printed sources: S. Johnson (A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection), 2003; p. 17.

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