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THE SCOTS MUSICAL MUSEUM.
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note by the erratic William Stenhouse (" Illustrations to the Scots Musical
Museum ; " "0 can you labour lee young man," No. 394, page 358), in
which he says, " The old tune was modelled into a Strathspey called ' The
Miller's Daughter,' which Shield selected for one of his airs in the Overture
to Kosina, and Gow afterwards printed the air from that Overture under
the name of ' Sir Alexander Don's Strathspey.' It is now called Auld
Lang Syne." In his note to Auld Lang Syne (pp. 373-376), Stenhouse
further states — " As Burns had mentioned that the old tune was but
medwere, Mr Thomson got the words arranged to an air introduced by
Shield in his Overture to the Opera of Eosina, written by Mr Brooks, and
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acted at Covent Garden in 1783. It is the last movement of that over-
ture, and in imitation of a Scottish bagpipe tune, in which the oboe is
substituted for the chanter, and the bassoon for the drone. Mr Shield,
however, borroived the air, almost note for note, from the third and fourth
strains of the Scottish Strathspey in Cumming's Collection under the title
of ' The Miller's Daughter,' but the strathspey itself is modelled from the
Lowland melody of ' I fee'd a lad at Michaelmas.' See Note on Song No.
394. Gow also introduced the air, as slightly altered by Shield, in his
Collection of Keels, &c, Book I., and gave it the name of ' Sir Alexander