Annotation:Hoddom Castle

Tune properties and standard notation

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HODDOM/HODDAM CASTLE. Scottish, Slow Air (6/8 time). B Flat Major (Carlin): G Major (Gatherer). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was composed by Mr. (Charles) Sharpe of Hoddam as a slow air, although the tune is un-attributed in the Gows' Third Collection (1792), in which other tunes are attributed to Sharpe (for more on whom see "Mr. Sharpe's Delight"). Hoddam Castle [1] is in the vicinity of Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland. It was sold in 1690 to John Sharpe and remained in the family for several generations.

Hoddom Castle

Charles Sharpe of Hoddom

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 333. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; p. 22. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow's Reels), 1792; p. 6 (3rd ed.).

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Tune properties and standard notation