Title page, Daniel Dow's Reells and Strathspeys
| ID | JSS0529 |
| Title | Title page, Daniel Dow's Reells & Strathspeys |
| Document Reference | Hend inst Dow t |
| Format | 251 x 170 mm |
| Medium | Printed page |
| Item Type | Printed Collection |
| Subject | Scottish Music, Reels & Strathspeys |
| Item Description | Daniel Dow's (1732-1783) first published collection. A fiddler, composer, teacher, concert organiser, Dow was b. Kirkmichael, Perthshire, d. Edinburgh. This collection of 'Thirty-seven' of his own compositions (c. 1776), appeared eight years before any from the more famous fiddler Niel Gow. Dow also published a fascinating Collection of Ancient Scots Music 'consisting of ports, salutations, marches or pibrachs [piobaireachd - the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe]', Edinburgh: n.d. [1778]. In the latter he recorded some of the music known to Irish musician Rorie Dall O' Caithean, harper to several titled Scottish families. The copy here has been used for research; the date and place of Dows's death has been written underneath, in an unknown hand, probably in the 19th century. |
| Creator | Daniel Dow |
| Publisher | J Brysson, Edinburgh |
| Time Period | 1750s-1780s |
| Relationships | JSS0530, JSS0531 |
| Location | University of Aberdeen |
| Collection Name | Thirty Seven New Reels & Strathspeys for the Violin, Harpsichord, Piano Forte or German Flute, composed by Daniel Dow |
| Copyright | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright |
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