Annotation:Miss Drummond of Perth (1)
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MISS DRUMMOND OF PERTH [1]. AKA - "Miss Drummond of Perth's Strathspey." AKA and see “Calum Crubach,” “Devil in the Kitchen (1),” “Devil Shake the Half-Breed (2),” “Gurren's Castle,” “Highland Fling (2),” "Lady Maria Banty's Reel," "Lame Malcolm," "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth (1),” “Mountain Reel (4),” “Our Highland Cousins,” "Prince of Wales Jig (The),” "Reel écossais (1)," “Sinking of the Titanic (The),” “Titanic Highland (The),” "Trois corbeaux (Les)," “Yorkshire Bite (1) (The).” Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Irish, Highland. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. Ireland, County Donegal. A Minor/Dorian (most versions): A Mixolydian (Martin, Perlman, Plain Brown). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Athole, Cole, Skye, Surenne): AAB (Gow, Jones, Kerr, Lees, Honeyman, Hunter, Lowe, Plain Brown): AABB (Manson): AABB’ (Perlman). The composition was claimed by wikipedia:Niel_Gow (1727–1807) and appears in his Third Collection, second edition, 1801. However, it has also been alleged to be the work of biography:Malcolm MacDonald, who published it in 1789 (Collection, vol. 2, p. 1) as "Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth (1)" (Alburger/Emmerson/Glen). There is a direct connection between Gow and MacDonald, for MacDonald was a professional musician from Gow’s home town of Inver, Perthshire, and often accompanied Gow on the cello when the latter played for dances. In County Donegal, Ireland, a derivation of the tune is known in the form of a Highland and is called “Titanic Highland (The)” or “Sinking of the Titanic (The).” See also the cognate Irish reel "Dudley Gallaher's Fancy Reel," and the distanced French-Canadian versions "Reel écossais (1)", "Reel écossais (2)" and "Trois corbeaux (Les)." See note for "annotation:Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth (1)” for more.
