A Collection of Strathspey Reels
by Marshall, William
Full title: A Collection of Strathspey Reels with a bass for the violoncello or harpsichord
Publisher: Edinburgh, Neil Stewart
Printer: Printed for Neil Stewart
Seller: Printed for Neil Stewart and sold at his music shop in Parliament Square. Price 2/6.
Edition: [1st]
Date: 1781
Description:
Marshall's first collection. He followed this 12 page volume with another bearing the same titlepage, of just 4 pages, dated as 1793 according to the HMT edition of 2007. GB-En Glen 386 has both bound together; so too does GB-A Hend inst Cum c; these are rare examples of the later 4-page edition.
Notes:
Very simple basslines.
'The Illumination 9th. Febry. 1781' commemorates the bonfires in Edinburgh to celebrate the acquittal from charges of treason of the Duke of Gordon's brother, Lord George Gordon. In Marshall's Scottish Airs it is renamed 'The Fochaber's Rant'.
The basslines in the later, 4-page edition are simple, but make considerably more use of dyads and chords than in the first volume.
Pages: 12 p
Orientation: Landscape
Dimensions: 23.5 x 33.5
RISM: M747
Gore: M4
Biographical info: Marshall (1748-1833) was a fiddler and composer, born in Fochabers, employed as house steward to the Duke of Gordon. (Glen 2, v-vii; Alburger; Bulloch; Cowie)
His father Francis Marshall was both fiddler and shoemaker in Fochabers to the Duke of Gordon. (Keith Sanger, correspondence, source: National Records of Scotland BD44/51/295/2/38)
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GB-A Hend inst Cum c (12+4 p, bound with Cumming, A collection of strathspey or old Highland reels)
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- A Collection of Strathspey Reels [A K Bell Library, Perth (GB-P), Be6]