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Annotation:John Roy Stewart (1)
X:1 T:John Roy Stewart [1] M:C| L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Robert Ross – Choice Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances B:& Strathspeys (Edinburgh, 1780, p. 40) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F f|c>BAG F/F/F A2|c<A Tc>A c<A F<f|c>BAG F/F/F A2|.D<(dTd>c) {c}d2:| f|c>d f>g a<f g<a|f<d c<A g<c c<f|c>d f>g a<f g<a|f<d Tg>f d/d/d (d<f)| c>d f>g a<f g<a|f<d Tc>A f<c c<f|a<fg<a F/F/F A2|.A>(dTd>c) {c}d2|]
JOHN ROY STEWART/STUART [1]. AKA and see "I Wish I Never Seen You (2)," "Julia Delaney (1)," "Och a bhodaich na hi ruim," "Raza's Reel." Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Minor (Duff, Lowe, Petrie, Ross): E Minor (Aird, McGlashan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow, Honeyman, Lowe, Ross, Skye): AABB' (Kerr): ABCD (Glen, McGlashan): AABCD (Skinner). Composed by Alexander McGlashan (1740-1797), who was nicknamed 'King' for his attention to extravagant apparel. Hardie (1992) says he has the "two-fold distinction" of having taught violin to Nathaniel Gow and employing him as a cellist in his dance band. John Glen (1891) finds the tune first in print in McGlashan's collection. John Roy Stewart was a Jacobite agent and a descendant of "The Wolf of Badenoch;" he was the last person to be knighted by the Old Pretender. Paul Stewart Cranford suggests (as did Francis O'Neill before him) that this tune was the progenitor of the "Maude Millar's Highland"/"Julia Delaney (1)" tune family in Ireland.
The tune was included in the John Rook ms., 1840; Rook was a musician from Waverton, Cumbria. Islay fiddler-composer Alexander Mackay printed a version in his c. 1822 collection under the title "Och a bhodaich na hi ruim."
