Annotation:Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray's Wedding March
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LADY DOROTHEA STEWART MURRAY'S WEDDING MARCH. Scottish, Pipe March (6/8 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCCD (Hardie): AABB'CCDD' (Martin). Composed in 1895 by Aeneas Rose (1832-1905) of Kingussie, who was pipe major of the Atholl Highlanders for some forty years. It was written on the occasion of the Duke of Atholl's daughter's marriage to Harold Ruggles-Brise. According to Christine Martin, Lady Stewart was "an avid collector of Scottish fiddle music and left her collection to the A.K. Bell Library in Perth."
Source for notated version: Highland West-coast fiddler Angus Grant of Fort William (Scotland) [Hardie].
Printed sources: Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; p. 119. Martin (Traditional Scottish Fiddling), 2002; p. 71.
Recorded sources: Smithsonian Folkways Records, SFW CD 40507, The Beaton Family of Mabou - "Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music" (2004).