Annotation:Mrs. Rose's Reel--of Banff

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MRS. ROSE'S REEL--OF BANFF. AKA - "Mrs. Rose." Scottish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by William Marshall (1748-1833). Moyra Cowie (The Life and Times of William Marshall, 1999) finds that Mrs. Rose, Isabella Falder, was the wife of a solicitor to the Earl of Fife.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1822 Collection, p. 39. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 182 (appears as "Mrs. Rose").

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