Annotation:Margaret Stuart's Reel

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X: 3094 T: Margaret Stuart's Reel % nf<bb B: "Northern Fiddler" 188.1 (DOD) Z: Andrew Robinson (ABCs: B.Black) L: 1/8 M: C R: reel Q: 360 K: Bm % dor f2Bf dBfB| (3f^ga ea cAec| f2Bf dBfB |1 ecac cBBe :|2 a2ec dBB2 || FBBc dBAc| EA (3AAB cABA| FBBc defb| afec dBBA| FB (3BBc dBAc| eAAB cABA| dBdb cBca| ecAB cABe ||



MARGARET STUART'S REEL. AKA and see "Lady Margaret Stewart." Irish, Reel. Ireland, County Donegal. B Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'B. A Donegal variant of the pipe and fiddle tune "Lady Margaret Stewart's Reel," first published in Second Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels (1788). A version can be found in the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of biography:John Roose (Manchester, England) under the title "Lady Margaret Howard's Strathspey." See also the related "Sweeney's Buttermilk."


Additional notes
Source for notated version : - fiddler Danny O'Donnell (County Donegal) [Feldman & O'Doherty].

Printed sources : - Feldman & O'Doherty (The Northern Fiddler), 1978; p. 188.






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