Annotation:Miss Sitwell

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 MISS SITWELL. Scottish, Slow Strathspey. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Skye): AB (Athole, Gow). Composed by Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), perhaps for a sister or relation of Francis Sitwell (see “Master Francis Sitwell”) who in 1795 married Anne Campbell, daughter of Sir Illay Campbell of Succoth, 1st Bart, and Susan Mary Murray.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 155. Gow (Fourth Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 2nd ed., originally 1800; pp. 22-23. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 128. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 288.  Recorded sources:

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