Annotation:Norea's Scots Measure
X:1 T:Norea's Scots Measure M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel Q:"Brisk" B:Oswald – Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book V (1760, p. 6) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G D|G2G4 dB|A2 e4 dc|B2ge dBAc|B2 GB AF D2| G2 G4 dB|A2 e4 dc|B2 ge dBAc|B2G2G2:| |:f|gfga bg e2|fefg af d2|efge fgaf|bagf e3g| dBAB dB d2|ed e2 g3a|bgab agea|gedB AGAB| G2 G4 dB|ABcd egfa|g2 fe dBcA|B2G2 G3:|| |:D|GBdB dB g2|Acec ecac|Bdef gdcB|a^fgB AFED| GBdB dB g2|Ac e2ce a2|gbaf gdec|B2G2G3:| |:f|gb Tb2 fa Ta2|egfa {e}^d2 (^cB)|eBfB gBaB|bagf e2 fg| dBAB dBde|gdeg {ga}b3a|bgeb afdf|gBgB AcBA| GBdB dB g2|Ac e2 ce a2|gbag fgde|B2G2 G3:|]
NOREA'S SCOTS MEASURE. Scottish, Reel (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCCDD. The tune was claimed by cellist and composer James Oswald in the index to the Caledonian Pocket Companion. Wikipedia:James Oswald (composer) (1710–1769) had become a widower in 1756 when his wife Mary Ann died, but found another love in Leonora Robinson-Lytton, the spouse a Oswald's friend and musical ally, John Robinson-Lytton. When Leonora became widowed in 1762 she secretly married Oswald, despite the gap in social class (she was an aristocrat and he was a drummer's son). Nevertheless, the union seems to have been a happy one; two of Oswald's three daughters by his first marriage named their own daughters after her. As John Robinson-Lytton had owned Knebworth, one of England's greatest stately homes, Leonora inherited, and Oswald in effect became master of the estate. Oswald composed three tunes in the Caledonian Pocket Companion for Norea--a contraction of Leonora--“Norea's Scots Measure”, “Norea's Wish” and “Norea's lost to me”. She died in 1790.
