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| Image | Title | Item Description |
|---|---|---|
 JSS0754 |
Page 1 of 2, Reviews | These reviews, at the end of Skinner's Rob Roy, were one of the methods by which he publicised his compositions. He publicised his dance classes in the same way, often including review compilations at the end of new publications. |
 JSS0755 |
Page 2 of 2, Reviews | These reviews, at the end of Skinner's Rob Roy, were one of the methods by which he publicised his compositions. He publicised his dance classes in the same way, often including review compilations at the end of new publications. |
 JSS0756 |
The Northern Meeting Quadrille | This typically 'Scottish' late Victorian image shows a very orderly Highland Games scene from the 1880s. The Northern Meeting, held near Inverness, was a particularly well known games. The juxtaposition of bagpipes and thistles to illustrate the music for a dance, the Quadrille, which was, and remains... |
 JSS0757 |
Page 1 of 2, The Warblers Polka | The Polka was an extremely popular ballroom dance in the nineteenth century. Skinner wrote many to use with his dance classes. |
 JSS0758 |
Page 2 of 2, The Warblers Polka | The Polka was an extremely popular ballroom dance in the nineteenth century. Skinner wrote many to use with his dance classes. |
 JSS0759 |
The Highland Polka | The Polka was an extremely popular ballroom dance in the nineteenth century. Skinner wrote many to use with his dance classes. |
 JSS0760 |
Cover image, Talisker Whisky | This image of two bearded, bonneted and plaided Highlanders drinking from a bottle, taking snuff, with Highland cattle in the background, seems like an almost music-hall caricature of the Highlands. However, it was merely seen as a humourous image in the late nineteenth century. Between them, through... |
 JSS0761 |
Talisker | This strathspey, which Skinner has composed in the bagpipe idiom, is not the same as the reel of the same name that appears in the earlier Logie Collection (JSS730). Like the reel, this strathspey is dedicated to Roderick Kemp of Elgin. |
 JSS0762 |
Talisker (poem) | La Teste's humourous poem (which uses North East Scotland dialect in a West Highland accent!), praises Talisker whisky at the expenses of the distilleries around his native Elgin. The poem is not set to the music - it is merely intended to accompany the melody. Note in the last verse, the reference to... |
 JSS0763 |
Advert for James Scott Skinner's Compositions, 1880s | This page, published on the back of the strathspey, Talisker, shows how Skinner described himself as a Composer and Professor of Dancing in the early 1880s. Note the prominence he gives to his royal patrons - he had taught dance to staff and tenantry at Balmoral in 1868. never loathe to promote himself,... |
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