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T:Miss Jessie Dun’s Strathspey
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R:Strathspey
B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 8)
N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in
N:Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes forced him to diversify: he also
N:organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery.
N:Morison also composed “Mr. Barclay Dun’s Hornpipe” and “Mr. David Dun’s Strathspey.”
F: https://web-cdn.org/s/153/file/Free-Downloads/John-Morison/Morison_J.pdf
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MISS JESSIE DUN'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Jessie Dun's Strathspey" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815. '
