Annotation:Mr. Robert Gordon's Reel
X:1 T:Mr. Robert Gordon’s Reel M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B: John Morison - A Collection of New Strathspey Reels, with a few favourite Marches (Edinburgh, c. 1797, No. 27) 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:D F|D2 FA d2 AF|GBAF BEEF|D2 FA d2 AF|GBAG FDDF| D2 FA d2 AF|GBAF BEEF|D2 FA d2 AF|FADg fddg|| (fe)de faag|(fe)de feeg|(fe)de faag|fdec Addg| fede faag|fede feef|abfa efdf|Adfe fdd||
MR. ROBERT GORDON'S REEL. Scottish, Reel (cut time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Mr. Robert Gordon's Reel" 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.
