Issue 3340: Miss Alice S. R. MacLennan in Jimmy Shand's set for Haddo House
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- Haddo House (Recording)
- Submitter
- Finlay Forbes
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- Murrough Landon
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There are only three tunes in this set. “Miss Alice S. R MacLennan” is not a tune but the name of the composer of “Mrs David Gordon of Haddo”. On the label of original 78 her name appears in brackets but I supect that the person transcribing the details on to the reissue didn’t notice!
There may be a tune called “Miss Alice S. R. MacLennan” but if there is, it does not feature in Jimmy’s set.
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- Date Oct. 19, 2023, 11:12 p.m.
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- Date Oct. 20, 2023, 1 a.m.
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Interesting! Though as Anselm encourages us to check I asked google about “Miss Alice S.R. MacLennan”. There appear to be other places where four tunes are mentioned. Eg https://thesession.org/recordings/2571 and https://www.nls.uk/media-u4/1056454/section-19-sa-shand.pdf#page=37
The latter suggests that Miss Alice S. R. MacLennan might be a tune by George S. MacLennan (presumably the composer of Mrs MacPherson of Inveran?).
But you say there are only three different tunes on this recording. I presume you have it and have listened to it. Are you confident about the identification of the other three? Are these other sources just copying the same mistake around?