Lady Madelina Sinclair
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lady Madelina Sinclair" also known as "Lady Madeline Sinclair" and "Braes of Aberarder"<br> and "The Tailor's Wife" is a Scottish strathspey in A Major (most versions),<br> A Mixlydian (Ross) or G Major (Kennedy, Surenne). The parts are played AB (Hardie, Kerr,<br> Surenne), AAB (Athole, Balmoral, Glen, Gow, Honeyman, Hunter, Kennedy, Martin, Ross, Skye).<br> Lady Madelina Sinclair (1772-1847) was the second daughter of Alexander, 4th Duke of<br> Gordon. Her first husband was Sir Robert Sinclair of Murtle, who died in 1795 when she was<br> twenty-three. Her second husband was named Charles Fyshe Palmer Esq. of Luckley Hall,<br> Berkshire.<br> Niel Gow (1727-1807) claimed credit for the tune in the Gow's Third Collection of<br> Strathspey Reels (1792) but Charles Duff had a prior claim to authorship of<br> a prototype of the tune under the title "Braes of Aberarder," which he published in 1790.<br> It was printed in Carlin's Gow Collection (1986), Glen's The Glen Collection of Scottish<br> Dance Music, vol. 1 (1891),<br> Gow's Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1792),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1986),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Kennedy's Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants (1997),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's),<br> Kenyon Lees' Balmoral Reel Book (1910),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> Manson's Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book vol. 1 (1854),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> Petrie's Third Collection of Strathspey Reels with a Bass for the Violoncello or<br> Piano Forte (1802),<br> William Ross's Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1869),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884) and<br> Surenne's Dance Music of Scotland (1852).<br>
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