Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Miss Sarah Drummond of Perth", also known as “Calum Crubach”,<br> "The Crippled Lad of the Glen" (in Gaelic "An Gille crubach anns' a Ghleann"),<br> "Danse Écossaise","Devil Shake the Half-Breed", Gurren’s Castle", "Miss Drummond of<br> Perth", “Mountain Reel", "Our Highland Cousins" and other titles is a Scottish<br> strathspey in A Minor. The parts are played AAB.<br> Composer credit for the tune was claimed by Niel Gow {1727-1807} (in his 1807 Third<br> Collection, second edition), however the tune appears under the full title (i.e.<br> referencing Sarah Drummond) in Malcolm MacDonald's 2nd collection (1789, the volume<br> dedicated to the Earl of Breadalbane). No composer was given credit to MacDonald by<br> Gow. It also appears in John and Andrew Gow’s A Collection of Slow Airs, Strathspeys<br> and Reels (London, c. 1795). Andrew (1760-1803) and younger brother John (1764-1826),<br> sons of Niel, established a publishing business in London in 1788 and were the<br> English distributors for the Gow family musical publications. The melody is also<br> known to Cape Breton fiddlers.<br> The Drummonds were a noble family of Gow’s home county of Perthshire, loyal to the<br> Jacobite cause for which several of the family died or were exiled. Clementina Sarah<br> Drummond (1786-1865) was the only surviving child and heir of James Drummond<br> (d. 1800), the first Lord Perth, and Clementina Elphinstone (d. 1822), Lady<br> Drummond, from whom she inherited an extensive fortune and vast Perthshire estates.<br> It was printed in<br> Glen's The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 2 (1895),<br> S. Johnson's A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection (2003),<br> MacDonald's A Second Collection of Strathspey Reels (1789) and<br> Banalari's Celtic Encyclopedia (1999).<br>
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