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The tune under the Northumbrian title "[[Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them All]]" is a variant, and it appears under the title "When ye cold winter nights were frozen" in Thompson's manuscript of tunes for the alto recorder, published in 1702. Sanger and Kinnaird ('''Tree of Strings''', 1992) say the tune was popular in Ireland as well, where it was known as "[[Planxty Scott]]." | The tune under the Northumbrian title "[[Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them All]]" is a variant, and it appears under the title "When ye cold winter nights were frozen" in Thompson's manuscript of tunes for the alto recorder, published in 1702. Sanger and Kinnaird ('''Tree of Strings''', 1992) say the tune was popular in Ireland as well, where it was known as "[[Planxty Scott]]." | ||
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MARY SCOTT [2]. AKA - "Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow." AKA and see "Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them All", "When ye cold winter nights were frozen." Scottish, Air and Minuet. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. The tune, appearing in Cumming Manuscript (1723 {appears untitled}), Adam Craig's Collection of Choicest Scots Tunes (1730) and the 1768 (James) Gillespie Manuscript from Perth, is based on the song "Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow." The air appears in a fiddler's tune book of c. 1705 (in the private collection of Francis Collinson) to which a second strain has been added to the first; a common practice of old Scots fiddlers who made single strain songs into fiddle (i.e. dance) tunes, according to the collector. Another version can be found in Agnes Hume's music book of 1704 (Collinson's MS??). Mary Scott was a real life personage, the daughter of Philip Scott of Dryhope Tower and renowned for her beauty, who lived in Yarrow during the 16th century. She married a notorious border reiver named Wat Scott of Harden in 1576 and bore him four sons and six daughters during their 30 year marriage, one of whose descendents was Sir Walter Scott. Neil (1991) relates:
Mary Scott had great strength of character and when there was no
food in the larder, she would serve her lord and master with a pair
of clean spurs on an empty plate. Before dawn there would be
English cattle hidden in a secret valley and the family replete.
The tune under the Northumbrian title "Sir John Fenwick's the Flower Among Them All" is a variant, and it appears under the title "When ye cold winter nights were frozen" in Thompson's manuscript of tunes for the alto recorder, published in 1702. Sanger and Kinnaird (Tree of Strings, 1992) say the tune was popular in Ireland as well, where it was known as "Planxty Scott."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: McGibbon (Scots Tunes, book II), c. 1746; p. 60. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 42, p. 55.
Recorded sources: