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|f_annotation=MISS BIGG OF BENTON'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, English; Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey" was composed by [[biography:Abraham Mackintosh]], a fiddle-composer, dancing master and musician who lived most of his life in Edinburgh. At the end of the 18th century, however, he relocated to Newcastle-upon-Tune and established himself there as a teacher of dancing. 'Benton' in the title refers to the district of Benton, now absorbed into greater Newcastle but in Mackintosh's time it was a desirable out-of-town suburb. Located there was a manor called Little Benton, owned by the powerful William Bigge (1707-1758), a lawyer, landowner and colliery owner, whose eldest son was Thomas Charles Bigge (1739-1794). Thomas, a landowner and banker, and his wife (née Jemima Ord) had four sons and six daughters, one of whom may have been the subject of Mackintosh's strathspey. | |f_annotation='''MISS BIGG OF BENTON'S STRATHSPEY.''' Scottish, English; Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey" was composed by [[biography:Abraham Mackintosh]], a fiddle-composer, dancing master and musician who lived most of his life in Edinburgh. At the end of the 18th century, however, he relocated to Newcastle-upon-Tune and established himself there as a teacher of dancing. 'Benton' in the title refers to the district of Benton, now absorbed into greater Newcastle but in Mackintosh's time it was a desirable out-of-town suburb. Located there was a manor called Little Benton, owned by the powerful William Bigge (1707-1758), a lawyer, landowner and colliery owner, whose eldest son was Thomas Charles Bigge (1739-1794). Thomas, a landowner and banker, and his wife (née Jemima Ord) had four sons and six daughters, one of whom may have been the subject of Mackintosh's strathspey. | ||
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MISS BIGG OF BENTON'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, English; Strathspey. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Bigg of Benton's Strathspey" was composed by biography:Abraham Mackintosh, a fiddle-composer, dancing master and musician who lived most of his life in Edinburgh. At the end of the 18th century, however, he relocated to Newcastle-upon-Tune and established himself there as a teacher of dancing. 'Benton' in the title refers to the district of Benton, now absorbed into greater Newcastle but in Mackintosh's time it was a desirable out-of-town suburb. Located there was a manor called Little Benton, owned by the powerful William Bigge (1707-1758), a lawyer, landowner and colliery owner, whose eldest son was Thomas Charles Bigge (1739-1794). Thomas, a landowner and banker, and his wife (née Jemima Ord) had four sons and six daughters, one of whom may have been the subject of Mackintosh's strathspey.
