Annotation:Niel Gow's Style
X:1 T:Niel Gow's Style T:Stoile Neill Ghobha M:C L:1/16 R:Strathspey S:Fraser Collection (1816/1874) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Bmin a2|fB3 f3e f3B Ba3|fB3 f3e a3c ca3|fB3 f3d e3cd3B|A3F EA3 C3A,A,2a2| fB3 f3e f3B Ba3|fB3 f3e a3a aa3|fB3 f3d e3cd3B|A3F EA3 C3A,A,2:| C2|B,FB2 D2B2 FB,3 B,D3|B,FB2 D2B2 A3A, A,C3|B,FB2 D2B2 FB3 d3B|A3F EA3 C3A, A,3C| B,FB2 D2B2 F3B, B,D3|B,FB2 D2B2 A3C, A,C3|B,FB2 D2B2 F3B df3|a^gfe a3e c2A2A2||
NIEL GOW'S STYLE ("Stoile Neill Ghobha" or "Staoileach Neill Ghobha"). Scottish, Strathspey. B Minor (most versions): E Dorian (Howe). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie): AAB (Fraser): AA'B (Howe): AABB (Alburger). Composed by Captain biography:Simon Fraser. This tune "is merely Niel Gow's sprightly style imitated by the editor, in which his friends are pleased to say he has made a happy effort" (Fraser). Perhaps not—Collinson (1966) calls the tune a "rather poor parody" of its inspirer. David Baptie (Musical Scotland, 1894) notes that Mr. Troup of Ballater, whom he reckoned an arbiter of Scottish traditional music, listed it among the best of the strathspeys in Fraser’s collection.
