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|f_annotation='''TEVIOT BRIDGE/BRIG.''' AKA - "[[ | |f_annotation='''TEVIOT BRIDGE/BRIG.''' AKA - "[[Tiviot Bridge]]." AKA and see “[[Boys of Ballinafad (The)]].” AKA – "[[Paddy Mullin's]]," “[[Pivot Brig (The)]],” “[[Tiviot Brig]],” "[[Teviot/Tiviot Jig]]." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Jig (6/8 time). Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. G Major (Skye): A Major (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Neil, Perlman, Phillips, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Neil): AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter): ABB (Skye): AABB (Kerr, Phillips, Sweet): AA’BB (Cranford/Fitzgerald): AA’BB’ (Perlman). "Tiviot Bridge"[https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/120346914] was composed by fiddler-composer Alexander Givan (1752-1803) of Kelso and issued in a small folio accompanied with several of his other compositions by the Edinburgh publishing concern of Gow & Shepherd c. 1810. Teviot Bridge is located in Kelso. An earlier printing appears in Thomas Calvert’s 1799 collection. Calvert was a musician from Kelso and a note with his collection states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” The tune has been associated with a particular country dance. It was included in the 1840 music manuscript collection (p. 212) of Cumbrian musician John Rook (Waverly). The jig was esteemed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald. See also the Irish “[[Father Hanley's Jig]]” which shares a similar second part (and which tune New York Irish fiddler Andy McGann used to pair “Teviot Bridge” with). | ||
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TEVIOT BRIDGE/BRIG. AKA - "Tiviot Bridge." AKA and see “Boys of Ballinafad (The).” AKA – "Paddy Mullin's," “Pivot Brig (The),” “Tiviot Brig,” "Teviot/Tiviot Jig." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Jig (6/8 time). Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. G Major (Skye): A Major (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Neil, Perlman, Phillips, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Neil): AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter): ABB (Skye): AABB (Kerr, Phillips, Sweet): AA’BB (Cranford/Fitzgerald): AA’BB’ (Perlman). "Tiviot Bridge"[1] was composed by fiddler-composer Alexander Givan (1752-1803) of Kelso and issued in a small folio accompanied with several of his other compositions by the Edinburgh publishing concern of Gow & Shepherd c. 1810. Teviot Bridge is located in Kelso. An earlier printing appears in Thomas Calvert’s 1799 collection. Calvert was a musician from Kelso and a note with his collection states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” The tune has been associated with a particular country dance. It was included in the 1840 music manuscript collection (p. 212) of Cumbrian musician John Rook (Waverly). The jig was esteemed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald. See also the Irish “Father Hanley's Jig” which shares a similar second part (and which tune New York Irish fiddler Andy McGann used to pair “Teviot Bridge” with).
Scottish fiddler-composer James Scott Skinner (1843 – 1927) arranged the tune as the first part of "Ettrick Vale Quadrille, No. 1"[1]