Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 29th 2008 by andy9876.
This tune has been added to 6 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Scot's March, The
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: e | d>BG A>FD | G2G g2b | a>fd e2A | d>de d2e |
d>BG A>FD | G3 b3 | a>fd e>dA | d>de d2 :|
|:d |d>ef g2G | A2A e2e | d>BG A>FD | G>AB G2d |
d>ef g2G | A3 e3 | d>BG A>FD | G2B G2 :|
The Scot's March
I've been persuaded that I ought to complete the "set" of the melodic marches from the 17th century, so here is the last, and probably oldest, of them - The Scot's March. (There is a fourth - The English March - but at risk of offending bodhran players, it is a rather tuneless drum rythm
.)
This march certainly pre-dates the civil wars - it was the "calling card" of the Scot's Brigade who fought in Europe during the Thirty Years War, and is purported to date back to the time of James V. It seems that the tune was "lost" for many years - known by name but not by form, with some thinking it an old reference to "Dumbartons Drums".
However, it had been recorded in "Elizabeth Rogers Virginal Book" of 1656 (in the key of F, and with embellishment) and what I've submitted here is a modern interpretation. As it's a march, it merits playing much more slowly than at "jig speed".
# Posted on March 29th 2008 by andy9876
The Irish March, from the same period, is of course on here already:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/653
# Posted on March 29th 2008 by andy9876