Annotation:Miss Ann Davidson's Jig
X:1 T:Miss Ann Davidson's Jig M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 38) N:Organist and fiddler Morison (1772-1848) was from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, the easternmost point in Scotland, on the North Sea. Alburger notes that failing fortunes 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:Bb F|TB>cB BFE|DFB dfb|bag (g/f/)e/d/c/B/|Acc c2F| TB>cB BFE|DFB dfb|fbd cBc|edc B2:| (f/g/4a/4)|bag fdB|Ace dfb|bag (g/f/)e/d/c/B/|Acc c2 (f/g/4a/4)| bag fdB|Ace dfb|fbd cBc|edc B2 (f/g/4a/4)| bag fdB|Ace dfb|bag g/f/e/d/c/B/|Acc c2 F| TB>cB BFE|DFB dfb|fbd cBc|edc B2||
MISS ANN DAVIDSON'S JIG. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Ann Davidson's Jig" 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.
