Ian Lawther wrote:
I was playing through Tom Clough's Bobby Shaftoe this evening and
realized that the 6th part is identical in pattern to the 4th part
of the highland pipe march The Barren Rocks of Aden (P/M A MacKeller
c. 1843).
A very interesting observation, Ian! The
Having sent this post off I though I would check an older setting of the
Barren Rocks (I've always played the version from the Scots Guards
book). The 1868 Ross Collection has it written without the dot and cut
but also with a slight change in the leading group of notes in each bar.
Instead of
