LADY GORDON OF GORDONSTOWN'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. "Lady Gordon of Gordonstown's Strathspey" was printed in William Morison's Collection of Highland Music (c. 1813). The tune was later entered into the huge 19th century music manuscript collection of dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder, and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia. Barry borrowed music books when he could for his copybook, a usual practice among musically literate rural musicians, and copied much (if not all) of Morison's volume, which was fairly rare. Barry also entered Morison's "Lady Gordon of Gordonstown's Reel" as the companion tune.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - William Morison (Collection of Highland music, consisting of strathspeys, reels, marches, waltzes & slow airs), c. 1813; p. 3.
