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Major McLean
ID JSS0569
Title Major McLean
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 'communicated by [Clementina] Lady Elphinstone' (1749-1822), and may be another example of music by a woman composer of traditional dance music. The tune was first published in Gow's Fifth Collections, and is also known as 'Lothian Lasses' and 'Lady Loughborough's Reel', according to J. Murdoch Henderson's handwritten note under the music.
Editor Nathaniel Gow
Arranger Nathaniel Gow
Publisher Gow & Shepherd, North Bridge Street, Edinburgh
Time Period 18th Century
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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