Annotation:Miss Stewart (3)
MISS STEWART [3]. AKA and see "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey," "Mrs. Biggs of Newcastle's Delight." Scottish, Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Abraham Mackintosh (b. Edinburgh, 1769), a son of Robert Mackintosh, who later in life removed to Newcastle where he was employed as a dancing master and musician. The tune appears in Abraham's c. 1797 collection under the title "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey." The first two and a half measures of the tune correspond to "Drunken Sailor (1)."
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