Annotation:Honorable Miss Elphinston’s Strathspey

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HONORABLE MISS ELPHINSTON'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The strathspey was composed by John Watlen, publisher of Celebrated Circus Tunes (Edinburgh, 1791), a title that references Edinburgh's Royal Circus, an extension of Phillip Astley's London-based Royal Circus.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 132, p. 51. Watlen (The Celebrated Circus Tunes), 1791; p. 10.

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