Three Favorite New Strathspeys
by Gow, Nathaniel
Full title: Three Favorite New Strathspeys & one Reel composed by Nath. Gow, To which is added a Favorite Irish Country Dance
Publisher: Edinburgh: Gow & Shepherd
Printer: Printed & sold by Gow & Shepherd
Date: [1801?]
Notes:
Simple, single note basslines. The final tune 'Cary Owen. a favorite Irish Country Dance' [Garry Owen] has the bass in octaves, and the rubric, 'This Tune may be play'd Slowly when not danced.' The other tunes are 'Lady Susan Hamilton's Strathspey', 'Mr R. Campbell of Shawfield's Reel', 'Lady Doune's Strathspey', and 'Lady Eh. Lindsay's Strathspey'. The last two of these are in The Beauties of Niel Gow (according to Gore). All four are 'by Nath: Gow.'
Biographical info: Niel Gow (1727-1807), father of the famous Gow family, lived in Inver near Dunkeld. (Glen 2, viii-xiv; Grove; Alburger; Murdoch, 41-48) Gow's fourth son Nathaniel (1763-1831), violinist and Edinburgh publisher, was perhaps the most famous of the siblings; but his brothers William, John and Andrew also traded in music (John and Andrew in London). Nathaniel's son, Niel Junr., lived 1795-1823.
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