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A collection of typically 'Scottish' fiddle tunes annotated for use at the Leverstock Green

Cricket Club Burns Night Celebration, originally assembled in 2013, but extensively

updated for 2016, with minor changes for 2017

Tim Brooks

Index

2 Jigs - Drunken Drummer(G)/Jeannie's Blue E'en(D)/Leslie's March (D)

3 Jigs -The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee (D)/ Kenmuir's Up and Awa'(D)

4 Reels - Spootiskerry (D)/ Willafjord (D

5 2/4 Marches - Highland Laddie (G)/The Pikeman's (aka Halting) March (Dorian Am) /

6 March and Reel Headlands (A)/June Apple (A)

7 Strathspey - Cutting Bracken (A)

7 Strathspey - The Laird of Drumblair (G)

8 Reels - High Road to Linton (A)/ The Fairy Dance (D)

9 Reel - Auchdon House (G)

9 Polka - JB Milne (A)

10 Walzes - Over the seas to Skye (G)/Will ye no come back again (G)/ Coming through the Rye (G)

11 Air - Music of the Spey (A)

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June Apple, generally thought of as an American Old-Time tune is included here because if follows nicely

from Headlands when both are played on a fiddle tuned AEAE - and there is at least one version on the web

which does attribute it to Scotland!

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Note: in the A part of this tune the emphasis should be on the second beat of the bar - in the B part it moves to the

first beat of the bar

In G as adapted from version in the Northumbrian Piper's Tunebook. Originally composed in A

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Version History of this document

v 12 Change of set order Highland Laddie before the Pikeman's March

v11 Highland laddie Chords reworked

v10 High Road to Linton key signature corrected to ## as key is A Mixolidian.

Largos's Fairy Dance chords corrected

Layout of Headlands made easier to read - no musical changes

Spootiskerry and Willafjord transcribed and checked - one note corrected in Willafjord

Checklist removed

v09 JB Milne melody and chords corrected

v08 The Waltz set updated and chords corrected

v07 Cutting Bracken updated and chords added,

Laird of Drumblair chords added and notation corrected.

v06 The Pikeman's March and Highland Laddie re-written with chords and notation corrected.

Headlands re-transcribed with chords.

v05 Drunken Drummer set written out as I actually play them - note significant changes to melody of

' Leslie's March'. - sorry- folk process at work!

v04 JB Milne - new version in A instead of G

v03 Order of tunes aligned with chord charts and web site

v02 New tunes added for 2016

v01 original 2013 publication

Possible new tunes for future years

Captain Carswell (March as played by Boys of the Lough )