Annotation:Miss Scott of Belvue

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 MISS SCOTT OF BELVUE. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Composed by William Shepherd, a fiddler and composer who published his first collection in 1793. A few years later he entered a partnership with Nathaniel Gow, and the firm of Gow & Shepherd became the leading music publishers in Edinburgh. A second collection of Shepherd's tunes was published by the firm in the early 1800's. He died in 1812.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Music), vol. 2, 1895; p. 21.  Recorded sources:

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