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 JSS0543 |
Page 1 of 2, Spanish Dances with their English figures as danced | Manuscript, in James Webster's (see JSS0545) hand. 'El duca de San Carlos': 'Down the middle half right & left at bottom, Up again, A [glide?] right and left at top, set and turn Partners.' 'El Maestro de Ceremonias', then 'Los Aabros de Vittoria': 'Right & left, A Flamenco down the middle & up again, Set change with partner & pousette.' 'La Dance de Sevilla': 'Cast off 1 cu: [couple] & meet between 2nd of 3 cu: [couples] Turn your Partners & pass under arches formed by 2nd and 3rd Cu:s [couples]'. |
 JSS0544 |
Page 2 of 2, Spanish Dances with their English figures as danced | Manuscript, in James Webster's (see JSS0545) hand. 'Bolero': 'Down the middle and up again, advance & retire, Turn your Partner, 1/2 right & left, the same repeated.' 'Le Garçon V [?T]olage. French Dance.' 'Les quatre Dames en Avant - 4 bars, Les Cavaliers Idem [the same]_4 bars. Balancer 8 a vos dames 8 Muro [?]. La Premiere dame Seule 8 bars. Le Cavalier de vis a vis Idem_8 bars. Promenade en rond tour les huit.' |
 JSS0545 |
Title page, Music Book of James Webster | Decorative cover of collection: 'This Book Belongs To James Webster AD 1836 AleHouseHill. Brucklay New Deer'. (See JSS0543, JSS0544.) Left to the University by J. Murdoch Henderson (1902-1972), mathematics teacher, fiddle enthusiast, collector and composer. At the bottom of the page he provides the provenance: 'Given to me, J Murdoch Henderson, by a daughter of Mr Will, late schoolmaster, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire. Mr Will's father's mother was a Webster.' |
 JSS0546 |
Title Page, Catharine Jean Moir's Collection of 82 Strathspeys, Reels, etc | 'Catharine Jean Moir, Fyvie January 1st 1790', written, presumably in her hand, within an engraved cartouche. She was learning the harpsichord. The first pages of her manuscript show that she had a methodical teacher. |
 JSS0547 |
Page 1 of 2, Gamut for the Harpsichord | From the music book of 'Catharine Jean Moir Fyvie January 1st 1790', written, presumably in her hand, within an engraved cartouche. She was learning the harpsichord with a methodical teacher. This page shows the range of the instrument on the treble and bass staves, and examples of notes from semibreve to demisemiquavers. |
 JSS0548 |
Page 2 of 2, Gamut for the Harpsichord | From the music book of 'Catharine Jean Moir Fyvie January 1st 1790', written, presumably in her hand, within an engraved cartouche. She was learning the harpsichord with a methodical teacher. This page shows sharps, flats, naturals, dots, rests, graces (decorations), and time signatures. |
 JSS0549 |
Title page, A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Bagpipe Music | Piobaireachd [pibroch] are the most complex of all bagpipe music, with a main theme (urlar) followed by difficult and exacting variations. This important collection was collected, arranged, and published by David Glen, of a prominent family firm of Edinburgh bagpipe makers, in 1880. The piper's Highland dress gives a good idea of the costume (including a large sporran, and a bulky plaid) which may have been worn when playing in piping competitions. |
 JSS0550 |
Scale for the Bagpipe (A major) | This fingering chart for the Highland bagpipe scale, is from 'A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd' [Pibroch]) (see JSS0549). Skinner wrote and published many tunes which could be played on the pipes, and which are still performed around the world. |
 JSS0551 |
Mackintosh's Lament 1526 | This piobaireachd [pibroch] is from David Glen's 'A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd') (see JSS0549). It appears not only in collections of bagpipe music, but in many manuscripts and published versions for violin. It was first published by the Scot James Oswald (1711?-1769) in London in the 1740s. A fine version is in Patrick MacDonald's Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (1784). There, the violin setting is in 'scordatura' tuning, where the strings are retuned so they can resonate, and simulate the bagpipe drones. |
 JSS0552 |
Page 1 of 2, Bannocks of Beer Meal | From 'A Collection of Scots Tunes some with variations for a violin, hautboy, or German flute, with a bass for a violoncello or harpsichord', by Edinburgh violinist and composer William McGibbon (c. 1690-1756), then Edinburgh's most prominent musician. The first 4 staves of his variation use 'double stops' (playing more than one note at the same time), and two-octave leaps (next last stave, bars 2 and 3). McGibbon (like Skinner, much later), omitted the bass line from underneath the variation, since the accompanist could use the same harmonies as the original melody. It saved paying for expensive engraving. |
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