Annotation:Strathglass House

Find traditional instrumental music



X:1 T:Straglass House M:C| L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Robert Bremner – “For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances” (p. 100) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:D A|D/D/D D>E F>AAB|A<Fd<F [A,3E3]F|D/D/D D>E TF>AAB|A<Fd<F A3:| |:B|A/A/A d>A TB>Ad>F|E/E/E F>D [A,3E3]F|A/A/A d>A TB>Ad>F|A/A/A d>F A3B| A<Fd<A TB>Ad>F|E/E/E F>D [A,3E3]F/G/|A>FG>E F>AA>B|A<Fd<F A3:|]



STRATHGLASS HOUSE. AKA - "Straglass House." AKA and see “Chisholm's Reel (The).” Scottish, Slow Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Bremner's "Straglass House" is the first appearance in print of a country dance to a strathspey tune. Bremner prints figures for a country dance but gives no indication of tempo, however, the Gows' entry is accompanied by the note: “This Tune is not to be Danced, as it ought to have been amongst the Slow Tunes at the beginning of the Book, but was omited.”


Additional notes



Printed sources : - Robert Bremner (For the year 1769 a collection of scots reels, or country dances), p. 100. Cumming (Collection of Strathspey or Old Highland Reels), 1780; No. 56, p. 19. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 34. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 158.






Back to Strathglass House

0.00
(0 votes)