Annotation:Honorable Mrs. Gray's Strathspey
X:1 T:Honourable Mrs. Gray’s Strathspey M:C| L:1/8 R:Srathspey B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 37) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the N:easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes N:forced him to diversify: he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery. F:https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_New_Strathspey_Reels_wit/Vo-EymUbJkYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22john+morison%22+%22new+strathspey+reels%22%C2%A0&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover K:F f|cFcA FAcA|cF (d/c/B/)A/ BGGg|cFcA FAcA|Bd (c/d/)c/B/ AFF:| g|Tf>g {fg}af gefc|df (d/c/)B/A/ BGGg|Tf>g {fg}af gefc|df (c/d/).c/.B/ AFFg| Tf>g {fg}af gefc|df (d/c/)B/A/ Ggga|Tga {fg}bg aefc|df (c/d/)c/B/ AFF|]
HONOURABLE MRS. GRAY'S STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Honorable Mrs. Gray's Strathspey" was composed by John Morison (1772-1848), a fiddler and, for a time, organist at St. Peter's Chapel, Peterhead. Morison was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point of Scotland and a port town on the North Sea. He had a small fiddle band for playing dances, but he supported himself, as many musicians did, with diversification. Alburger notes he also organized balls and ran a ship's chandlery; he also tuned pianos and organs and copied out music, but eventually he went bankrupt (at least once). Morison published two collections; the first around 1797 and the second in 1815.
