Annotation:Mrs. Dempster
X: 1 T: MRS. DEMPSTER C: Strathspey.--William Dempster Q: "Printed for the first time." %R: strathspey B: W. Hamilton "Universal Tune-Book" Vol. 2 Glasgow 1846 p.159 #3 S: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/itma.dl.printmaterial/book_pdfs/hamiltonvol2web.pdf Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M: C L: 1/8 K: D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F |D<DF>D B,>EEF | D<D D2 (D/E/F/G/) A>F |G>EF>D B,>EEF | D<D {DE}F>E DA,A, :| A |d<df>d B>ee>f | d>df>d a>df>d |g>ef>d B>ee>f | d<d {de}f>e d>AA>f | d<df>d B>ee>f | (3(def) (3(efg) (3(fed) (3(cBA) |(3(Bcd) (3(AFD) B,>EE>F | D<D {EF}F>E DA,A, |] % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
MRS. DEMPSTER. Scottish, Strathspey (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Mrs. Demptser" was composed by William Dempster and printed for the first time in Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2 (Glasgow,1846). The identical tune was entered into the large 19th century music manuscript collection[1](No. 456, p. 126) of prosperous dairy farmer, miller, sometime printer and bookbinder, and fiddler James Barry (1819-1906) of Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, northern Nova Scotia. Barry is known to have had access to Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vols. 1 & 2 and to have copied a number of tunes from them into his own music ms. collection.
