Annotation:Honorable Charles Bruce (The)

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 HONORABLE CHARLES BRUCE, THE. Scottish, Reel. B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Miss Magdelina Stirling, appearing in John Bowie's 1787 collection. Magdelina was a member of an old Perthshire family, a branch of whom held lands in the parish of Muthill, and she was a friend of Niel Gow and his son Nathaniel, who published a few of her compositions in their publications. She also published compositions under her own name, perhaps the most famous of which is "Perthshire Hunt (The)."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), vol. 1, 1891; p. 41.  Recorded sources:

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