X:1
T:Lady Louisa Macdonalds Strathspey
M:C
L:1/16
R:Strathspey
B:Robert Mackintosh – “A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels” (1804, p. 22)
N:Dedicated to the Dutchess [sic] of Manchester
N:Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) was a Scottish violinist and
N:composer active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. Originally from
N:Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. He moved to London in the last decade
N:of his life.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Emin
ef|g3ef^d3 e(E3E3F)|G3A cBAG FA3 dD3|g2ag f2gf (eE3E3c)|B3G BAGF G2E2E2:|
f2|(efga) b3g eb3ge3|(defg) a3f da3fd3|(efga) b3g eb3ge3|B3bfa3 (ge3e3f)|
(efga) b3g eb3ge3|da3Af3 Fd3FD3|GFE2 AGF2 BAG2 cBA2|B3e gfe^d eee2 e2||
Louisa, Lady Macdonald, by Angelica Kauffman, 1767LADY LOUISA MACDONALD'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Lady Louis Macdonlad's Strathspey" was printed in Edinburgh fiddler-composer biography:Robert Mackintosh's Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels (c. 1804). The tune is perhaps named for Lady Louisa Macdonald (née Lady Louisa Leveson-Gower, 1759-1827), who in 1777 married Scottish lawyer, judge and politician Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron of England. They lost a young adult daughter around the time Mackintosh's Fourth Collection was published, Susan (1780-1803), who had gone to Lisbon to try to recover her health. Susan was the illustrator of The Sports of the Genii (1804) by poet Anne Hunter.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Robert Mackintosh (A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels), 1804, p. 22.
Recorded sources : - London LDN 463, Willie Simpson and His Scottish Country Dance Band - "Peronella."
