Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on May 17th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Scotty's Highland
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Amaj
cB | AEA cAc | ece a3 | g3 f2 d | B3 B2 A |
GEG BGB | dBd g3 | f3 fec | A3 AcB |
AEA cAc | ece a3 | g3 f2 d | f3 f2 g |
aba gfe | fec Ace | fef g2 e | a3 ||
cd^d | e^de fec | e^de fec | e^de g2 f | d3 d2 c |
dcd gfe | dcd gfe | dcd f2 e | c3 c2 d |
e^de fec | e^de fec | Ace ag=g | f3 f2 g |
aba gfe | fec Ace | fef g2 e | a3- a3 ||
|: c'gb a3 | aga e3 | aga c'ae | d3- d3 |
EGB EGB | EGB g3 | f3 fec |1 A3 Ace :|2 A3- A ||
"Traditional Highland Jig" ~ courtesy of Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald
This is a rollicking jolly ol' jig. I hesitated, as I haven't my printed sources at hand to chase up a proper title for it. It's one I'm familiar with, but I've no title coming to mind either. I'm hoping once it is here on site that maybe dear Kenny or someone else will have something more in the way of identification than merely 'traditional' or 'highland'? I have looked through the few things I have on hand, but so far without luck, not that I don't sometimes miss the blatantly obvious at times... I will keep looking. I also think I have another transcription somewhere, and maybe that will have a name. This is transcribed from the inspirational fiddling of Winston 'Scotty' Fitzgerald, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia... I've given it a 'lead-in' of ~ cB | so it can all end on |2 A3- A ||, as it would, but Scotty takes off with ~ AEA cAc |... This is a great dance tune, great for the square sets and step dancing...
# Posted on May 17th 2007 by ceolachan
"Traditional Highland Jig" ~ a Sandy MacLean connection? & G
"Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes"
Edited by Paul Stewart Cranford
Cranford Publications
http://www.cranfordpub.com/
ISBN: 0-9691181-4-7
Page 32: "Highland Jig" ~ another transcription for this
Notes: In the fifties John Donald Cameron was told by Ronald Dan Campbell that the tune was composed by Sandy MacLean and that the original key was G. Apparently Winston had transposed it to 'A' and then 'doctored it up' by adding chromatics. The original title, if there was one, was never documented...
# Posted on May 18th 2007 by ceolachan
This tune is familiar, and while I'm not exactly antique yet, or maybe I'm deluding myself, I doubt the previous note. I think this has been around longer and that it rings as if it might be another 'quickstep', and I've this feeling I've seen it in one of the collections from the 1800s, maybe amongst the Kerr publications, or possibly Howe, Ryan / Cole?
# Posted on May 18th 2007 by ceolachan