Annotation:De'el's Dead
X:1 T:De'el's Dead M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:William Campbell – “Campbell’s 12th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & B:Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as B:Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, c. 1797, p. 3) F: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9a/IMSLP655932-PMLP1052069-campbells12thboo00camp.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:A V:1 a|cAec dBfd|cAec (e/f/g) ae|cAec dBfd|cA A/A/A f2e:| g|a/g/f/e/ ac dBfg|aeag f2 (e/f/g)|aefc dBed|cA A/A/A Tf2 eg| (a/g/f/e/) ac dBfg|aeag Tf2 (e/f/g)|aefc dBed|cAAa faea|| V:2 clef = bass z|A,,2A,,2B,,2B,,2|A,,2A,,2A,,2A,,2|A,,2A,,2B,,2B,,2|A,,2A,,2 D,2C,:| z|[A,,2A,2] [A,,2A,2][B,,2B,2][B,,2B,2]|[A,,2A,2][A,,2A,2][D,2A,2][C,2A,2]|[A,,2A,2][A,,2A,2][G,,2G,2][G,,2G,2]|A,,2A,,2A,2A,2| A,,2A,,2B,,2B,,2|A,,2A,,2A,,2A,,2|A,2A,2G,2G,2|A,2A,2A,2A,2||
DE'EL'S DEAD. AKA and see "Mrs. Dundas McQueen," "Niel Gow's Wife (2)." English, Reel (cut time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "De'el's Dead" is cognate with Francis Peacock's c. 1805 "Niel Gow's Wife (2)" and with Aird's "Mrs. Dundas McQueen" (1801), although not an exact replicate. The first strains are very similar, while the second strains are less so, but still reasonably the same tune.
