Lady Shaftsbury’s Stathspey
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lady Shaftsbury Strathspey", also known as "Lady Shaftsbury Reel", "Lady Shaftsbury's<br> Delight", "Greenend Park" or "Kelly's Goat" is a Scottish Slow Strathspey and Country Dance<br> in E Flat Major (Gow, Howe, MacDonald, Stewart-Robertson), B Flat Major (Wilson), A Major<br> (Kennedy) or D Major (Aird). The parts are played AB (Surenne), AAB (most versions).<br> The composition is credited to Edinburgh publisher, teacher, composer, fiddler and bandleader<br> Nathaniel Gow as "Lady Shaftesbury's Strathspey," printed in his Third Collection (1792),<br> however, John Glen finds that it was first published by Malcolm MacDonald, who printed it in<br> his Second Collection of 1789 under the title "Greenend Park". McDonald was the bass player<br> in Gow's band at the time and probably heard him playing the tune, perhaps not realizing it<br> was composed by him. Glen (1895), however, believes it was Gow who stole the tune. It was<br> published as a country dance called "Lady Shaftsbury's Delight" in London publisher Preston's<br> Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793.<br> Poet Robert Burns employed a modification of the tune for his song "Here's to thy health,<br> my bonny lass", printed in the Scots Musical Museum. Burns called the tune "Loggan Burn"<br> (or "Laggan Burn"), but the name appears to be idiosyncratic to that publication, as no such<br> tune title has been found elsewhere.<br> "Lady Shaftsbury's Strathspey" was set in the key of D major and included in the music<br> manuscript book of Cumbrian musician John Rook (1840, p. 196). The melody surfaced in America<br> as a fife air called "Kelly's Goat" (Bayard, 1981), but was included under the "Lady<br> Shaftsbury" title in the music copybook manuscript of William Patten or around 1800 (probably<br> from Philadelphia). Howe prints the tune in a reel-time setting.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5 (1797),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Gow's Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1792),<br> Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867),<br> Kennedy's Traditional Dance Music of Britain and Ireland: Reels and Rants (1997),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1793,<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Surenne's Dance Music of Scotland (1852),<br> Tracy's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances (1795),<br> Wilson's Companion to the Ballroom (1816) (identified as "Old Scotch").<br>
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