X:1
T:Fleur’s Castle
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Country Dance Tune
B:Nathaniel Gow – “The Favorite Dances of 1812: Some of which are Composed
B:& the whole arrange for the piano forte by Nath. Gow” (1812, p. 3)
N:”As Performed at his Annual Ball in George Street Assembly Rooms the 3rd of March.”
B: https://archive.org/details/TheFavoriteDancesOf1812/mode/2up
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Bb
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fB bB|c'/b/a/g/ f/e/d/c/|d/f/e/d/ c/g/f/A/|B/c/d/e/ f/g/a/b/S||
FLEUR'S CASTLE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Fleurs (sometimes Floors) Castle was an 18th century parkland in Roxburghshire, in the east Borders region of Scotland, the site of Wester Kelso, a medieval burgh destroyed by fire in 1684.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Nathaniel Gow (The Favorite Dances of 1812: Some of which are Composed & the whole arrange for the piano forte by Nath. Gow), 1812; p. 3. James Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 1), 1844; p. 67.
