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| Image | Title | Item Description |
|---|---|---|
 JSS0795 |
Good Morning Mrs Barclay | Skinner stayed with Mrs Barclay in The Gordon Arms Hotel, Keith, Banffshire, after his bankruptcy and marriage break-up. |
 JSS0796 |
Jamie and His Bonnie Cattie | The 'Jamie' of the title is Jamie Ingram, Skinner's friend Gramin's son, who died as a child. Gramin, an Aberdeen Free Press correspondent, wrote many verses to go with Skinner's tunes. |
 JSS0797 |
Roualeyn's Plaid | Skinner has given examples at the foot of the page of the forms of bowing he developed: the 'straight slur', the 'arrow' and the 'loop'. In each case, he describes when and how to use these devices. The setting of the melody is interesting - unusually, it is scored for violin and piano or 2 violins... |
 JSS0798 |
Fyvie Castle | This melody is described as a 'pastoral weird and eerie. In keeping with this, Skinner has included an eerie excerpt from 'Castles of Aberdeenshire'. |
 JSS0799 |
Dr Macdonald | The Dr Macdonald of the title was Dr Keith Norman Macdonald, who published the Gesto Collection of Highland Music in 1895. The Gesto Collection was influential on Skinner's own Harp & Claymore Collection. |
 JSS0800 |
We'll Aye be fond o' Ingram | The Ingram of the title was George Gordon Ingram, who wrote under the pen name, Gramin. A good friend of Skinner's, he emigrated to St Paul, Minnesota, in March 1889. |
 JSS0801 |
Albert | This pastoral, dedicated to another member of the Ingram family, has been composed along the lines of a technical study. It is full of arpeggios, scale passages, leaps and couplets. The melody is actually in the upper part of the piano accompaniment. |
 JSS0802 |
Mr Marshall | This pastoral strathspey was designed to be listened to, rather than danced to. A pastoral strathspey was played at a much slower tempo. |
 JSS0803 |
Dalkeith's Lament | Throughout his composing career, Skinner developed his ability to compose fiddle music in the bagpipe idiom. Some of this is extremely successful. In the Logie Collection, he included a section of this 'bagpipe' music. He points out that the pipes cannot play the note G sharp. |
 JSS0804 |
The Cameron Highlanders | Skinner composed this piece in memory of his brother Sandy. Sandy served in the Cameron Highlanders between 1857 and 1868. CLick on the audio link to hear Skinner playing it. |
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