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Image	Title	Item Description
JSS0795	Good Morning Mrs Barclay	Skinner stayed with Mrs Barclay in The Gordon Arms Hotel, Keith, Banffshire, after his bankruptcy and marriage break-up.
JSS0796	Jamie and His Bonnie Cattie	The 'Jamie' of the title is Jamie Ingram, Skinner's friend Gramin's son, who died as a child. Gramin, an Aberdeen Free Press correspondent, wrote many verses to go with Skinner's tunes.
JSS0797	Roualeyn's Plaid	Skinner has given examples at the foot of the page of the forms of bowing he developed: the 'straight slur', the 'arrow' and the 'loop'. In each case, he describes when and how to use these devices. The setting of the melody is interesting - unusually, it is scored for violin and piano or 2 violins and piano or 2 violins and cello. Normally, Skinner's music was reproduced on two staves only, as piano music.
JSS0798	Fyvie Castle	This melody is described as a 'pastoral weird and eerie. In keeping with this, Skinner has included an eerie excerpt from 'Castles of Aberdeenshire'.
JSS0799	Dr Macdonald	The Dr Macdonald of the title was Dr Keith Norman Macdonald, who published the Gesto Collection of Highland Music in 1895. The Gesto Collection was influential on Skinner's own Harp & Claymore Collection.
JSS0800	We'll Aye be fond o' Ingram	The Ingram of the title was George Gordon Ingram, who wrote under the pen name, Gramin. A good friend of Skinner's, he emigrated to St Paul, Minnesota, in March 1889.
JSS0801	Albert	This pastoral, dedicated to another member of the Ingram family, has been composed along the lines of a technical study. It is full of arpeggios, scale passages, leaps and couplets. The melody is actually in the upper part of the piano accompaniment.
JSS0802	Mr Marshall	This pastoral strathspey was designed to be listened to, rather than danced to. A pastoral strathspey was played at a much slower tempo.
JSS0803	Dalkeith's Lament	Throughout his composing career, Skinner developed his ability to compose fiddle music in the bagpipe idiom. Some of this is extremely successful. In the Logie Collection, he included a section of this 'bagpipe' music. He points out that the pipes cannot play the note G sharp.
JSS0804	The Cameron Highlanders	Skinner composed this piece in memory of his brother Sandy. Sandy served in the Cameron Highlanders between 1857 and 1868. CLick on the audio link to hear Skinner playing it.

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