Annotation:Miss Isaac Forsyth—Elgin

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MISS ISAAC FORSYTH--ELGIN. Scottish, Jig. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by Biography:William Marshall (1748-1833). The tune was perhaps composed for a child of Isaac Forsyth (1768-1859), a bookseller in Elgin, whose only surviving daughter was Miss Catherine Forsyth.

William Marshall



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gatherer (Gatherer’s Musical Museum), 1987; p. 24. Marshall, Fiddlecase Edition, 1978; 1845 Collection, p. 3.

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