Annotation:Lady Maxwell
X:1 T:Lady Maxwell's Reel T:Lady Maxwell's Rant M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:Joshua Campbell – A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys (Glasgow, 1789, p. 4) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:C e|c3 GEG|[CG]EG cGE|c3 Gce|dDD D2e| cec GEG|[CG]EG cGE|FdF EcE|dDD D2:| |:e|ceg egc'|afa geg|ceg c'ge|fdd d2e| |1 cec geg|c'gc' faf|geg fdf|ecc c2:| |2 (c>de) dBG|(A>Bc) Gec|DEF Ggf|ecc c2||
LADY MAXWELL. AKA - "Lady Maxwell's Rant," "Lady Maxwell's Reel." Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in biography:Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (p. 25). Campbell also included a version of the same tune in his 1789 collection (as he did with several others from his first collection) under the title "Lady Maxwell's Reel." The word 'reel' in this context describes the dance performed to the tune, which is a 6/8 time jig melody.
