Nigel Gatherer wrote: > > Ted Hastings wrote: > > > The Fiddlecase Books edition of Marshall's Scottish Melodies was > > mentioned on the list recently. I managed to track down a copy at > > Birchwood Books. They have several other copies in stock if anyone is > > interested. See: > > > www.birchwoodbooks.co.uk > > Thanks for this, Ted. I received my copy from Birchwood in the post > yesterday, and I'm delighted. It's not the best reproduction, but it's > certainly good enough for me, and it's not so easy getting Marshall's > collected compositions anywhere else. > > He wrote a fair few jigs, didn't he? > > -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Note that there is a 4 page issue of Marshall's tunes that's not included in the Fiddlecase Books reprint. The copy I saw (Library of Congress) had the same title page as the original collection (1781?). Below is a list of them. These are also listed in Charles Gore's 'The Scottish Fiddle Music Index'. Contents: The Marquis of Huntly's Farewell; WMR2 1: Miss Dallas's Reel; WMR2 1: Miss Grant of Knockando's Reel; WMR2 1: Lady Anne Hope's Reel; WMR2 2: Miss Jean Stewart's Reel; WMR2 2: Miss Sally Eglinton's Reel; WMR2 2: Miss Burnet's Reel; WMR2 3: Lord Alexander Gordon's Reel; WMR2 3: Reprinted- Lord Alexr. Gordon's Reel_by Mr. Marshall; McGlashan-AMR2 38: Kiss Ketty Allan's Reel; WMR2 3: Miss Halkets Reel; WMR2 3: Miss Wedderburn's Reel; WMR2 4: Miss Ann Stewart Reel; WMR2 4: Miss Watson's Reel; WMR2 4: Bruce Olson -- Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my website <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
