Annotation:Miss Murray Lintrose

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MacDonald, Lawrence; Euphemia Amelia Murray (1769-1845); Perth & Kinross Council; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/euphemia-amelia-murray-17691845-248375

MISS MURRAY LINTROSE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Miss Murray Lintrose" was composed by Perthshire fiddler-composer biography:John Bowie who included it in his Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. (Edinburgh, c. 1789, p. 2), along with figures for a country dance. The tune is named for Euphemia Murray of Lintrose (c. 1769), a cousin of Sir William Murray of Ochtertyre (see also another of Bowie's country dances "Miss Murray Ochtertyre (Country Dance)"), who often stayed with the Auchtertyre relatives. Euphemia was aged 20 when Bowie published his collection, and a celebrated beauty known as 'The Flower of Strathmore'. Poet Robert Burns met her when she was eighteen and was inspired to write the song "Blythe, blythe and merry was she" (which he set to the tune of "Andro and His Cutty Gun/Andrew and His Cuttie Gun (1)"). He recalled: "I composed these verses while I stayed at Ochtertyre with Sir William Murray. The lady, who was also at Ochtertyre at the same time, was a well-known toast, Miss Euphemia Murray of Lintrose..."

Her bonnie face it was as meek,
As ony lamb upon a lea;
The evening sun was ne'er sae sweet,
As was the blink o' Phemie's ee.

In 1794, she married David Smythe of Methven Castle, later a judge of the Court of Session, by whom she had several children. Euphemia died in 1845.

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