Annotation:Mrs. Menzies of Culdares' Jig

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MRS. MENZIES OF CULDARES' JIG. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The tune appears in the 1824 collection of fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher, the "Dunkeld Paganini," whose collection included a number of tunes for the Menzies extended family, an old Jacobite clan. The collection was dedicated to Lady Menzies of Castle Menzies. Culdares, near Fortingall, Perthshire, is the site of a castle or old house that was the seat of the Menzies of Culdares branch of the Menzies clan. McKercher's "Mrs. Menzies of Culdares" may have been Ronald Stewart, the oddly-named daughter of Ronald Stewart of Fasnocloich, Argyll, who married (the also quirkily-named) Steuart Steuart-Menzies (1783-1827) of Culdares and Cardney in 1814. She died in 1829, outliving her husband by two years.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, 1824; p. 9.

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