Rosabell
Other Composers and Compilers | Nathaniel Gow
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| ID | JSS0570 |
| Title | Rosabell |
| Document Reference | Hend Inst Gow s |
| Format | 242 x 338 mm |
| Medium | Printed Music sheet |
| Item Type | Printed Collection |
| Subject | Scottish Music, Strathspey |
| Item Description | This slow strathspey was 'Composed and communicated by Miss Murray of Auchtertyre' (about three miles from Crieff, Perthshire), so is an undeniable example of the work of a woman composer of traditional dance music. She may be the Euphemia Murray of Auchtertyre to whom Robert Burns wrote his poem 'Blythe Was She' on a visit there in 1787: / By Oughtertyre grows the aik, / On Yarrow banks the birken shaw; / But Phemie was a bonier lass / Than the braes o' Yarrow ever saw. The tune was first published in Gow's Fifth Collection |
| Creator | Miss Murray of Auchtertyre |
| Arranger | Nathaniel Gow |
| Publisher | Gow & Shepherd, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh |
| Time Period | 18th Century |
| Associated Dates: Manuscript | jss0569 |
| Location | University of Aberdeen |
| Collection Name | Gow's Repository, Volumes 1-7 in one |
| Copyright | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright |
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