Gow's Repository of the Dance Music of Scotland (Gow, Niel)

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Editor Niel Gow & Sons
Nathaniel Gow, revision of Parts 1-3, 3rd ed.
Engraver Walker & Anderson
Publisher. Info. Edinburgh: Robert Purdie, n.d. (Parts 1-3)
Edinburgh: for the Proprietors, n.d.[1817] (Part 4)
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Editor Niel Gow & Sons
Nathaniel Gow, revision of Part 1, 3rd ed.
Publisher. Info. Edinburgh: Robert Purdie, n.d. (Part 1)
Edinburgh & London: for the Proprietors, n.d.[1817] (Part 4)
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General Information

Work Title Gow's Repository of the Dance Music of Scotland
Alternative. Title
Composer Gow, Niel
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 4 volumes
First Publication. 1799 (Part 1), 1802 (Part 2), 1806 (Part 3), 1817 (Part 4)
Dedication 1. Her Grace the Duchess of Gordon
2. Her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch
3. The Right Honourable the Countess of Loudoun & Moira
4. The Nobility and Gentry of Scotland
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Classical
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation harp or piano, violin and cello (in various combinations - essentially violin & unfigured continuo);

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The title used for this page (which is the title of a later edition of the Repository) is preferred over the longer titles of the earlier editions.

Includes the following attributed composers:

  • Mr [William] Marshall - 13 tunes
  • D. D. = Daniel/Donald Dow - 19 tunes
  • John Riddle (also Riddell) - 3 tunes
  • D. Mackintyre - 3 tunes
  • Mr McIntyre (the same?)
  • John Bowie
  • Petrie
  • John Gow - 3 tunes
  • Nathaniel Gow - 12 tunes
  • R[obert] Mackintosh - 4 tunes
  • Mr Duncan
  • the late Mr Geo[rge] Jenkins - 2 tunes
  • Miss M[agdalena] Stirling
  • communicated by Mrs McNiel of Colonsay
  • communicated by Captain [Simon] Fraser of Knocky
  • Mr McLeod of Rasay, 1 composition plus 2 tunes communicated by him
  • Isaac Cooper of Banff
  • Earl of Eglintoun (Hugh Montgomerie Eglinton) - 4 tunes
  • Mr Boswell of Auchinleck
  • Joseph Haydn (arrangement of Todlen Hame)
  • A Givan of Kelso - 2 tunes
  • John Pringle
  • Captain Daniel Menzies
  • the late Mr James Macdonald