Annotation:Miss Juliet Morison (of Fetteresso's) Strathspey
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MISS JULIET MORISON (OF FETTERESSO'S) STRATHSPEY. Scottish, Strathspey (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Miss Juliet Morison (of Fetteresso's) Strathspey" 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.
Fetteresso Castle, at the time of publication of John Morison's first volume, was the home of Robert William Duff and his wife, the former Mary Morison. It is not known who Juliet Morison was, however, 'Juliet' was not the name of Mary's mother, and she was, perhaps, a sister. They both may also be related to the composer, John Morison, although no link has been established as yet.
