Sir David Hunter Blair
X:1 T:Sir David Hunter Blair M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Napier - Selection of Dances & Strathpseys (c. 1798) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:F f2 cd cdcd|cf a2 cf a2|b2 ga gaga|gfef ge c2:| |:af Tf2 cfAc|FAcf eg g2|af Tf2 cfAc|FAcf ge f2:|]
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair's Reel
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Nathaniel Gow - single sheet issue (1800)
N:"German"
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair’s Reel
C:David Hunter Blair
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:William Campbell – “Book 16th of Strathspey Reels, Waltz’s & Irish Jigs for the
B:Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as Danced at Court,
B:Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, 1801, p. 2)
F: https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/2d/IMSLP655934-PMLP1052069-strathspeyreelsw00camp.pdf
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair
M:C
L:1/16
R:Strathspey
B:Robert Mackintosh – “A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels” (1804, p. 24)
N:Dedicated to the Dutchess [sic] of Manchester
N:Robert “Red Rob” Mackintosh (c. 1745-1808) was a Scottish violinist and
N:composer active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. Originally from
N:Tullymet, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. He moved to London in the last decade
N:of his life.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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X:1
T:Sir David Hunter Blair's Reel
L:1/8
M:C
B:Button & Whitaker’s Selection of Dances, Reels, Waltzes No. 1
B:(undated, early 19th century)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair
M:C
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
Q:"Allegro"
B:Thomas Wilson - A Companion to the Ball Room (London, 1816, p. 94)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:C
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X:1
T:Sir David Hunter Blair's Reel
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Patrick McGahon music manuscript collection (1817, No. 22)
N:McGahon was a scribe of Irish language literature who lived in
N:Dungooley, County Louth, on the Armagh border. He was a
N:teacher with The Irish Society in the early 19th century, but little
N:else is known about him. A few tunes in the ms. are written in other N:hands.
B:Pádraigín Ní UIallacháin – “A Hidden Ulster” (2003, p. 444)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
S:Surenne – Dance Music of Scotland, p. 8 (1852)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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X:1
T:Sir David Hunter Blair’s Reel
M:2/4
L:1/8
N:”German air” (?)
B:Manson – Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book vol. 2 (1854, p. 103)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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X:228
T:Sir David Hunted Blaise
O:No 228 Wm Clarke of Feltwell
Z:Transcribed by M Humphreys May 2010
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair Reel
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Elias Howe – Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (Boston, 1880-1882, p. 635)
B: http://ks4.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/c/c7/IMSLP601433-PMLP562790-ONeill_Rare_Medium_M40_M8_v6.7_text.pdf
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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X:1
T:Sir David Hunter Blair’s Reel
M:C
L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (Book 2, c. 1883, No. 37, p. 7)
B: http://grier.itma.ie/book-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=6&z=-112.2439%2C232.5084%2C3516.6742%2C1230.1919
N:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a piper and fiddler from
N:Newpark, Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Co. Leitrim.
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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T:Sir David Hunter Blair
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Stewart-Robertson - The Athole Collection (1884)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
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X:1
T:Sir David Hunter Blaine's [sic] Reel
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L:1/8
R:Reel
B:Rev. Luke Donnellan's music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel
B:region, south Ulster)
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