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Rosabell
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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