Ballindalloch Castle
| 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. Click on the audio link below. |
| Creator | James Scott Skinner |
| Creator Manuscript | James Scott Skinner |
| Time Period | 1890's - 1900's |
| Location | University of Aberdeen |
| Collection Name | Harp & Claymore |
| Copyright | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/documents/copyright |
Historic Collections · Kings
College · Old Aberdeen · AB24 3SW
Tel:(0)44 1224 274312 · E-mail: scottskinner@abdn.ac.uk
