Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia
As part of the Mel Bay Encyclopedia Series, the purpose of this book is to offer fiddlers direct access to the gems of the genre. Composers represented in this volume span a three hundred year period including works by: Patrick MacDonald, Adam Craig, Capt. Charles Duff, Simon Fraser, Robert and Joseph Lowe, Robert MacIntosh, William Marshall, and J. Scott Skinner. Ms. Rideout's original compositions are also included. The tunes are listed in order by key signature to enable the fiddler to put sets together for performance, competition or session playing. This book contains extra marches and strathspeys unique to Scottish fiddling. The end of the book is dedicated to solo numbers consisting of piobaireachd (pibroch) and slow airs. The Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia is an essential tune book for musicians interested in developing a deeper appreciation for genuine traditional Scottish fiddle music.
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Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia
As part of the Mel Bay Encyclopedia Series, the purpose of this book is to offer fiddlers direct access to the gems of the genre. Composers represented in this volume span a three hundred year period including works by: Patrick MacDonald, Adam Craig, Capt. Charles Duff, Simon Fraser, Robert and Joseph Lowe, Robert MacIntosh, William Marshall, and J. Scott Skinner. Ms. Rideout's original compositions are also included. The tunes are listed in order by key signature to enable the fiddler to put sets together for performance, competition or session playing. This book contains extra marches and strathspeys unique to Scottish fiddling. The end of the book is dedicated to solo numbers consisting of piobaireachd (pibroch) and slow airs. The Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia is an essential tune book for musicians interested in developing a deeper appreciation for genuine traditional Scottish fiddle music.
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Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia

Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia

by Bonnie Rideout
Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia

Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia

by Bonnie Rideout

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As part of the Mel Bay Encyclopedia Series, the purpose of this book is to offer fiddlers direct access to the gems of the genre. Composers represented in this volume span a three hundred year period including works by: Patrick MacDonald, Adam Craig, Capt. Charles Duff, Simon Fraser, Robert and Joseph Lowe, Robert MacIntosh, William Marshall, and J. Scott Skinner. Ms. Rideout's original compositions are also included. The tunes are listed in order by key signature to enable the fiddler to put sets together for performance, competition or session playing. This book contains extra marches and strathspeys unique to Scottish fiddling. The end of the book is dedicated to solo numbers consisting of piobaireachd (pibroch) and slow airs. The Scottish Fiddle Encyclopedia is an essential tune book for musicians interested in developing a deeper appreciation for genuine traditional Scottish fiddle music.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786675098
Publisher: MEL BAY PUBLICATIONS, INC.
Publication date: 06/28/2006
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 8.75(w) x 11.75(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents


A Dream - (air or strathspey)     68
A Mother's Lament on the Death of her Child - (lament)     82
A' Phiorbhuic - (pipe reel)     93
Alasdair MacAlister - (strathspey)     97
Aldavaloch - (strathspey/air)     124
An Air to Which Ossian is Recited - (air)     51
Athole Highlanders Farewell to Loch Katrine, The - (march)     10
Auld Man's Mare's Dead, The - (strathspey)     88
Baile Nan Granndach - (slow strathspey)     52
Ballochmyle Brig - (strathspey)     24
Balmoral Castle - (march)     22
Banks - (hornpipe)     103
Barren Rocks of Aden, The - (march)     53
Blair Athole - (reel)     98
Bog an Lochan - (strathspey)     88
Bonnie Lass O' Bon-Accord, The - (air or march)     24
Bonnie Wee Thing - (air or highland schottische)     27
Bonny Jean of Aberdeen - (air)     76
Bottom of the Punch Bowl, The - (country dance)     54
Bovaglie's Plaid - (slow air or strathspey)     27
Braes of Tullymet, The - (strathspey)     108
Bridge of Garry, The - (reel)     28
Bungalow, The - (reel)     28
Carle He Came O'er the Craft - (ditty)     73
Cleek Him Inn - (reel)     111
Cock O' the North, The - (jig)     11
Coilsfield House - (strathspey)     76
Colonel Thornton - (strathspey)     98
Cradle Song, The - (lullaby)     28
Craigellachie Lassies, The - (jig)     54
Cross of Inverness, The - (reel)     77
Crossroads - (jig)     29
Culloden House - (strathspey)     104
Da New Rigged Ship - (shetland reel)     85
Dargai - (air/piobaireachd)     29
Davie Taylor- (strathspey)     77
Devil in the Kitchen, The - (fling or strathspey)     12
Devil's Dream, The - (reel)     30
Drinan Jig - (jig)     130
Drowsy Maggie - (reel)     89
Drunk at Night and Dry in the Morning - (air or waltz)     32
Duke of Athole, The - (strathspey)     99
Duke of Cumberland - (strathspey)     55
Duncan Davidson - (strathspey)     56
Earl of Dalhousie's Happy Return to Scotland, The - (march)     56
East Nuik of Fife - (reel)     78
Ewie Wi' the Crooked Horn - (strathspey)     108
Fairy Dance - (reel)     57
Farewell, The - (air or march)     8
Fisher's Hornpipe - (hornpipe)     58
Fishing Off Eilean Na H'airde - (strathspey)     129
Flo'ers O' the Forest, The - (lament)     13
Forfar Hunt - (reel)     69
Frank Gilruth - (hornpipe)     33
Gallaton - (strathspey)     81
Geordie MacLeish - (reel)     58
Gillie Callum - (strathspey)     14
Gin Ye Kiss My Wife, I'll Tell the Minister - (air)     99
Gorthleck's Highland Plaid - (strathspey)     9
Grand Old MacIntyre - (pipe march)     14
Haggis, The - (reel)     99
Harvest Home - (reel)     59
Haste to the Wedding - (country dance)     59
High Reel, The - (reel)     16
High Road to Linton - (reel)     33
Highland Mary - (slow air)     109
Highland Whiskey - (strathspey)     33
Highlandman Kiss'd His Mother, The - (reel)     96
Highlandman's Rant - (reel)     100
Highlands of Scotland, The - (strathspey)     89
Honorable Miss Drummond of Perth, The - (strathspey)     60
Honourable Mrs. Drummond of Perth's Delight, The - (jig)     34
Hurricane, The - (hornpipe or reel)     35
If E'er Ye Do Well It's A Wonder - (waltz or slow air)      60
Inverness Gathering - (pipe march)     16
Iron Man, The - (strathspey)     36
Isle of Sky - (Scottish measure)     61
Itchy Fingers - (march or reel)     70
Jack a' Tar - (hornpipe or reel)     90
Jack Broke Da Prison Door - (reel)     85
Jenny Dang the Weaver - (reel)     74
Jenny Nettles - (reel)     100
J. F. Dickie's Delight - (strathspey)     36
Jig in A - (jig)     51
Jinglin' Johnnie - (reel)     37
Jock's Lodge - (reel or strathspey)     74
Kindred Spirits - (piobaireachd)     118
King Robert the Bruce - (marching air)     61
Kinrara- (strathspey)     105
Lads of Duns - (jig)     62
Lady Elgin's Reel - (reel)     74
Lady Georgina Gordon - (reel)     113
Lady Mary Hope Vere - (reel)     63
Lady Jemima Johnston - (strathspey)     96
Lady John Scott - (strathspey)     37
Laird O'Drumblair, The - (strathspey or schottische)     38
Lament on the Death of Sor Blanca Maria - (lament)     90
Laoidh Rebecca - (slow air)     83
Leburn's Highland Bagpipe - (strathspey)     38
Left Handed Fiddler, The - (reel)     39
Lick the Ladle Sandy - (reel)     17
Lochiel's Awa' to France - (slow reel)     86
Lord James Murray - (reel)     63
Lord John Scott- (reel)     39
Lord MacDonald - (reel)     81
Lord Saltoun - (reel)     40
Lowlands of Scotland, The - (reel)     90
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles - (slow air)     69
Marchioness of Huntly, The - (strathspey)     40
Marquis of Huntly's Strathspey, The - (strathspey)     111
Mary Do it Again - (jig)     42
Mathair Spe - (strathspey)     94
McIntosh's Lament - (piobaireachd)     114
McLean of Pennycross - (strathspey)     42
Miss Cameron's Reel - Balvenie - (reel)     106
Miss Clementina Drummond - (strathspey)     44
Miss Elspeth Cambell - (pipe march)     18
Miss Gordon of Park - (jig)     112
Miss Lyall - (strathspey)     100
Miss May Hay - (reel)     91
Miss Trotter - (strathspey)     44
Miss Watt - (reel)     106
Morrison's Jig - (jig)     91
Mrs. Gunn's Strathspey - (strathspey)     92
Mrs. Macpherson Gibston - (reel)     104
Mrs. Stewart's Strathspey - (strathspey)     86
My Love is Gone to Sea - (air)     101
My Wife's a Drunkard - (reel)     92
Niel Gow's Lamentation for James Moray of Abercairny - (lament)     82
Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife - (lament)     64
Neil Roy - (reel)     109
North Bridge of Edinburgh, The - (strathspey)     69
North of the Tay - (reel)     93
Null Thar Nan Eileanun - (reel)     64
Old Grey Cat, The - (reel)     93
Over the Isles to America - (reel)     64
Oyster Wive's Rant, The - (reel)     102
Periwig, The - (pipe reel)     93
Peter Bailie - (strathspey)     94
Piper King, The - (pipe march)     45
Pretty Peg - (reel)     65
Prince Charlie's Farewell to Scotland - (lament)     45
Prince of Wales Jig - (fling or strathspey)     12
Purser's Air- (air)     126
Queen's Welcome to Invercauld, The - (pipe march)     21
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie - (jig)     22
Rebecca's Hymn - (slow air)     83
Robertson's Rant- (reel)     71
Roslin Castle - (slow air)     105
Rothiemurcus Rant- (strathspey)      97
Roy's Wife O' Alldivaloch - (strathspey/air)     124
Ryan's Rant - (reel)     102
Scott Skinner's Compliments to Dr. MacDonald - (march)     46
Seumas Mor A' Ghlinne - (reel)     112
Sheep Shanks - (reel)     47
Simonside Hornpipe, The - (hornpipe)     66
Sir Robert Peel - (reel)     108
Sleeping Maggie -(reel)     70
Sleep Soond in da Mornin - (Shetland reel)     71
Sma' Coals for Nailers - (reel)     71
Soldiers Joy, The - (reel)     66
Source of the Spey, The - (strathspey)     94
Speed the Plough - (reel)     47
Spey in Spate, The - (reel)     67
Sterling Castle - (strathspey)     67
Sterlingshire Militia - (march)     48
Stool of Repentance, The - (jig)     49
Sutters of Selkerke, The - (hornpipe)     75
Sweet Molly - (strathspey and reel)     95
Thorn Bush - (strathspey)     49
Tullochgoram - (strathspey)     87
Whiskey Glen Jig - (jig)     50
Whistle O'er the Lave O't - (slow strathspey)     84
Winyadepla - (air)     50
Wise Maid - (reel)     68
Yell Yell - (strathspey)      72
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