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Scottish tunes
Scottish songs and dance tunes, including reels and other forms with different meters.
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- Auld Lang SyneOpen score
A Scottish traditional song. The melody follows Felix Horetzky's public-domain guitar setting on Mutopia, adapted here for concertina and accordion.
- Kelvin GroveOpen score
The upper voice of Horetzky's public-domain guitar setting, adapted as a single melody.
- Scots Wha HaeOpen score
The upper voice of Horetzky's guitar setting, adapted as a single melody.
- Loch LomondOpen score
A short melody setting of the traditional Scottish song.
- John Anderson, My JoOpen score
An expressive melody reduction of Felix Horetzky's historical guitar setting.
- Annie LaurieOpen score
Lady John Scott's Scottish song melody, reduced to a single line for concertina and accordion.
- Bonnie DundeeOpen score
A six-eight Scottish tune as printed in a nineteenth-century Scottish song collection.
- The Skye Boat SongOpen score
A compact melody version for concertina and accordion, without lyrics.
- The Rowan TreeOpen score
A Scottish melody presented without lyrics.
- The Flowers of EdinburghOpen score
A traditional reel in Kerr's nineteenth-century collection.
- The Fairy DanceOpen score
A Scottish dance tune in Kerr's nineteenth-century collection.
- Tail ToddleOpen score
A Scottish dance tune in Kerr's nineteenth-century collection.
- Moggy on the ShoreOpen score
A Scottish reel from Kerr's fourth collection; alternate endings and one triplet are simplified for playback.
- Jenny LatinOpen score
A reel from Kerr's fourth collection. Pickups and alternate endings are regularized.
- Ae fond kissOpen score
Haydn's setting of the Scottish song, with voice, violin and piano parts on one page.
- The Hare Among the HeatherOpen score
Complete score of “The Hare Among the Heather” from Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies (No. 132).
- The CameronianOpen score
Complete historical score of “The Cameronian” from Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies (No. 134).
- My Brother Robert Has Gotten a WifeOpen score
A lively Scots version of the older 'Robin-a-thrush' song, with a rhythmic 'heather-avo' chorus. This 1906 score preserves a complete melody, one verse and its chorus.
- Cattle CallOpen score
A short musical call learned from dairymaids near Abernethy, on the Perth and Fife border, around 1870. Mrs. Mellis sang it for Anne Geddes Gilchrist in 1905; the original notation includes the words and complete tune.
- Jacky RobinsonOpen score
An Allegro song remembered in Fife, with a rapid nonsense-syllable chorus. The 1906 notation shows the complete melody, opening verse and chorus.