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Thread #11919   Message #91095
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30-Jun-99 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Scottish Settler's Lament
Subject: RE: Scottish song in vasrious forms
There has been some controversy as to whether Wm. Marshall's "Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathspey" (1781) was derived from the tune "The Lowland of Holland" in 'The Scots Musical Museum' #115 (1788), or vice versa. As regards publication dates Marshall's tune is older, and accepted as the original by John Glen in 'Early Scottish Melodies' and James Dick in 'The Songs of Robert Burns'. Wm. Stenhouse, "Illustrations to the Scots Musical Museum", claimed the "Lowlands of Holland" tune (with this title) was in a manuscript compiled by Robert Bremner in Stenhouse's possession, which, if true, would reverse the priority, but the manuscript is now unknown, so Stenhouse's identification of the tune can't be verified.