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Rédacteur: 6th edition. John Thomas Surenne (1814-1878)
Edition: Edinburgh: Wood & Co, n. d.

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liftTHE GLEN COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH MUSIC
Presented by Lady DOROTHEA Ruggles-Brise to
National Library of Scotland, in memorythe of her
Major Lord George Stewart Murray,brother,
Black Watch, killed in action in France in 1914.
28th January 1927.THE
MUSIC OF SCOTLANDDANCE
A COLLECTION OF ALL THE BEST
AND STRATHSPEYSREELS
HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDSBOTH OF THE
PIANOFORTEFOR THE
ARRANGED AND EDITED
J. T. SURENNE.
SIXTH EDITION.
* SCOTLANDOF j
EDINBURGH:
WOOD AND CO., 49 GEORGE STREET.INTRODUCTION.
of the hest Eeels and Strathspeys of theThis Collection contains two hundred and forty-five
arranged expressly for the Pianoforte. The correct nota-Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland,
attended to, and their harmonic arrangement is new. The tunestion of the tunes has been carefully
Eeel, Strathspey,distributed of three, as they are generally danced ; that is to say,are into sets
according to Maelzel's Metronome. In some rareReel. The proper tempo ofeach tune is indicated
facilitate Pianoforte performance and in many of the tunesinstances the key is changed in order to ;
- in thisis marked. Several Dance-tunes are not includedthe proper fingering of certain passages
Burns and other Scottishbecome intimately associated with Songs byCollection, because they have
" "Scotland," and also in Wood'showever, will be found in Wood's Songs ofPoets. These tunes,
the usefulness and popularity of this Volume,Melodies of Scotland without Words." To increase
all the truescarce work, a complete description ofthe writer of the Introduction has given, from a
By means ofthatwith their original Gaelic names.Highland Steps of the Eeel and the Strathspey,
Eeels and Strathspeysgiven in this Collection, the dancing ofdescription, and of the numerous tunes
remotest parts of the globe.may practised families of Scottish settlers in thebe learned and by the
think it unne-Dance Music ofScotland, viz., Reels and Strathspeys, weAs this volume is devoted to the National
oldestDance Music which was brought hither from France or England. In thecessary to say much about other
2—Gavottes, Voltesfind Allemandes, Branles, Courantes, Gaillardes,Scottish Collections of manuscript music' we
alongwith these some Scottish dance-although not all ofthem ofFrench origin—anddances derived by us from France,
foreign dances and dance-tunes in Scotland atThese MSS. showthe preponderance oftunes and a few English ones.
and Strathspeys were as yet only among futurebefore then at the Scottish Court, when Reelsthat time, and long
8offashion.possibilities
Edinburgh and other large towns in Scotland, were Minuets,Fifty years ago, the fashionable Dances taught in
Now, with the exception of the Reels and Strathspeys, al]Cotillons, Reels and Strathspeys, and Country-Dances.
yield theirfor the Waltz, the Polka, &c, &c. ; which last will, in turn,these Dances have disappeared and made way
manfully andBut the Reels and Strathspeys have held their ground,places to some other saltatory novelties.
foundboth Scotland and England to this day ; and we are not sure that they have not, of late years,womanfully, in
popularity ofeven to France, that soil of all soils the most bedanced by merry lads and lasses. The hightheir way
particularly and minutely upon thesethe Reel and the Strathspey, all over Great Britain, induces us to dwell more
Scotland all our other Dances of ancient or modern timesDances, which are really the only National Dances of ;
England.having been derived by us from France or from
4published in 1781 the Rev. Patrick M'Donald, he mentions (in the Preface)In the Collection of Highland Airs, by
these sung or played by the natives. " The slow plaintivesome particulars regarding the manner in which airs are
1 The Straloch, and Skene, and Rowallan, and Leyden MSS. See List appended to this volume.
2 Volta. It somewhat resembled the Modern Waltz.The Volte was anciently a common dance in Provence, and was originally the Italian
"description of La Volta," and of various other dances of the sixteenth century, see Sir John Davies' poem on Dancing, written aboutFor a
1590. Byron's bitter attack upon the Waltz is well known.
3 years ago, and were taught Court of England HeiIt will be seen afterwards that these Scottish Dances were much invogue fifty at the
Queen Victoria, on first visiting the Highlands, was much struck with these dances, and has since patronized them.Majesty
4 See No. 24 of List given in this volume.—
IV INTRODUCTION,,.
tunes are sung by the natives in a wild, artless, and irregular manner. Chiefly occupied with the sentiment and
expression of the music, they dwell upon the long and pathetic notes, while they hurry over the inferior and
connecting notes in such a manner as to render it exceedingly difficult for a hearer to trace the measure of them.
They themselves, while singing them, seem have measure." (P.to little or no impression of 2.) As his work is
"now rare, we subjoin what he says regarding the Harp Music of the Highlands. The Airs above-mentioned, and
others of similar structure, are valuable, as probably being the most genuine remains of the ancient Harp
Music of the Highlands. This was once the favourite music in the Highlands of Scotland, as it has long
continued to be in Ireland. The fate, however, which it has experienced in the two countries, has been very different.
In Ireland the harpers, the original composers and the chiefdepositaries of that music, have, till lately, been uniformly
cherished and supported by the nobility and gentry. They endeavoured to outdo one another in playing the airs
that were most esteemed, with correctness, and with their proper expression. Such ofthem as were men ofabilities,
attempted to adorn them with graces and variations, or to produce what were called good sets of them. These were
1additions.communicated to their successors, and by themtransmitted with By this means the pieces were pi-eserved,
long they harpers, we mayand so as continued in the hands of the native suppose that they were gradually
improved, whatever them, were consistent with, andas graces and variations they added to tending to heighten and
display the genuine spirit and taste for that style of performanceexpression of the music. The seems now, however,
number their airs haveto be declining. The native harpers are not much encouraged. A of come into the hands
modelofforeign musicians, who have attempted to fashion them according to the of the modern music ; and thesenew
are considered in The Lady in the Desart,sets the country as capital improvements. as played by an old harper,
hardly known same tune. Itand as played according to the sets now in fashion, can be to be the is now abundantly
regular in its structure ; but its native character and expression, its wildness and melancholy, are gone- The
variasuch mighttions are as have been composed at this day in Italy or Germany. In the Highlands of Scotland, again,
harp has longthe ceased to be the favourite instrument ; and, for upwards of a century, has been seldom heard.
encouragementThe of the people has been transferred to the bagpipe, an instrument more congenial to the martial
spirit of the country. In consequence of this, many of the pieces that had been originally composed, and had been
chiefly performed or accompanied by the harpers, are irrecoverably lost ; and those which have been preserved by
tradition,may naturally supposedbe to have been gradually degenerating."—P. 3.
" 2A considerable number ofthe airs contained in this first division are what the country people call Luinigs, and
are sung when a number personsof are assembled, either at work or for recreation. They are generally short ; their
measure is regular, and the cadences are distinctly marked. Many of them are chorus songs. Particular parts of
are allottedthe tune to the principal singer, who expresses the significant words the other parts are sung in chorus
;
3by the whole company present. These pieces being simple and airy, are easily remembered, and have probably
been accurately preserved."
4In the Dissertation prefixed theto same Collection, Mr. Young tells us that the people of St: Kilda, at the close
of the fishing season, when they have laid up their winter store, meet together rejoicingly in the store-house, and there
sing and dance to one of their best reel tunes, 9.) He mentions also the luinigs and the iorrums, or boat-songs(p.
the which they "of men, to keep time with their oars when rowing, 10.) The St. Kildians too are very fond of(p.
music. Being great lovers of dancing, they have a number of reels, which are either sung or played on the Jew's
trump, their onlyharp, or musical instrument. One or two of these sound uncommonly wild, even to one that can
rough Highlandrelish a Reel. Some of the notes appear to be borrowed from the cries of the sea-fowl which visit
certain seasonsthem at of the year, and are considered as their benefactors. Their elegiac music is in a better strain,
pathetic and melancholy, but exceedingly simple. Like the other peculiarities of the Highlanders, the custom of
singregularlying these songs at work is declining apace, especially in the eastern countries and the districts which have
much in