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| Image | Title | Item Description |
|---|---|---|
 JSS0714 |
Title page, Flowers of the North Quadrille | The images on the cover - five attractive young women, flowers, and romantic Highland scenery - should have ensured its success. The music, 'admired airs from his celebrated Logie Collection', has been recycled. It is also available for septet, String Band, or as single band parts. |
 JSS0715 |
Title page, The Lucania Polka | The Lucania Polka celebrated the Atlantic liner of the same name and was dedicated to its captain. This colourful image came from the printer, Oscar Brandstetter, Leipzig, whom Skinner's friend and publisher, Charles Middleton of Keith, Banffshire, used for typsetting much of the sheet music he published. |
 JSS0716 |
Title page, The Channel Fleet Lancers | Skinner often 'respectfully dedicated' music to people he thought might be useful patrons to him in the future. He often named his dances after topical or heroic occasions. The Quadrille Lancers, a five part 'square' dance for four couples, was still an extremely popular ballroom dance in the late nineteenth... |
 JSS0717 |
Image of James Scott Skinner aged c. 40 | This lithograph image of James Scott Skinner aged around 40, appeared in the front of Miller o' Hirn Collection. |
 JSS0718 |
Title page, The Miller o' Hirn Collection | The Miller o' Hirn Collection was Skinner's first large collection of Scottish dance music, airs and songs. He was 38 when it was published. At this point in his career, he still described himself as a pupil of Dr Mark. |
 JSS0719 |
Preface, Miller o' Hirn Collection | Skinner really looked forward to the establishment of an official society to advance the arts in Scotland. He felt very strongly that this would allow native practitioners the freedom to work and allow Scotland's arts to survive. He puts this message, and his delight that Scottish music was reaching... |
 JSS0720 |
Index, The Miller o' Hirn Collection | The index to Skinner's first large collection of Scottish music and song shows 122 items, all composed or arranged by himself. |
 JSS0721 |
Page 1 of 2, Lyrics, The Music o' Spey. Britannia, Jeannie and her Lowland Laddie, The Auld Wheel | The words to all these songs appear at the beginning of Skinner's Miller o' Hirn Collections. Both poets mentioned here, R Grant (from Peterhead, and known as 'The Bard of Ugie') and La Teste, wrote many poems to fit Skinner's music. All these songs appear in the Collection. |
 JSS0722 |
Page 2 of 2, Lyrics, The Auld Wheel, The Miller o' Hirn, The Grand Auld Spey | The words to all these songs appear at the beginning of Skinner's Miller o' Hirn Collections. Both poets mentioned here, R Grant (from Peterhead, and known as 'The Bard of Ugie') and La Teste, wrote many poems to fit Skinner's music. All these songs appear in the Collection. |
 JSS0723 |
The Miller o' Hirn | The Miller o' Hirn (Mr Johnstone, The Hirn, Deeside), is one Skinner's most popular and best known pieces for fiddle. This version appears right at the beginning of The Miller o' Hirn Collection. There are words by La Teste to accompany it. See JSS0722. The schottische Willie Blair was composed as a... |
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