| ID |
JSS0070 |
| Title |
Ballindalloch Castle |
| Document Reference |
MS2726/58 |
| Format |
240 x 298 mm |
| Medium |
pen & ink on music manuscript paper,with handwritten notes |
| Item Type |
Manuscript |
| Subject |
Music,Scottish fiddle music, Scottish Bagpipe, Quickstep, Ballindalloch Castle |
| Item Description |
Skinner probably wrote Ballindalloch Castle for Lady MacPherson-Grant, whose name appears in Skinner's 'List of Patrons and Families who have Received Tuition from Mr and Mrs Scott Skinner' in his Miller o' Hirn Collection (1881). Ballindalloch Castle, Banff-shire, has been their family home since 1546. Upper left, above the staff, Skinner wrote '3 Quickstep -' in blue crayon. His untypically small signature is to the right. The 2-part, four-bar, repeated melody has two variations, one with arpeggios and scale passages, the second added triplets. Skinner's typical bass line uses octaves, separately, together, or an octave apart, with a few harmonic notes added, and open fifths with grace notes in the fifth system, to suggest bagpipe drones. Skinner writes, below: all the above may be played on the pipes in the diatonic scale of A excepting the G's / which are natural - they should be played as written on Violin & Piano'. A neat music example for pipes and fiddle follows; 'pipes play the upper notes', he adds.
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| Creator |
James Scott Skinner |
| Creator Manuscript |
James Scott Skinner |
| Time Period |
1890's - 1900's |
| Location |
51cg |
| Collection Name |
Harp & Claymore |
| Copyright |
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