Annotation:Ossian
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OSSIAN. Scottish, Slow Air (4/4 time). F Sharp Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The elegiac air was printed in fiddler-composer J. Scott Skinner's Scottish Violinist (1900) and Harp and Claymore Collection (1904), and included in his section of "Pastoral Melodies and Heroic Airs." It was composed by Skinner himself, in memory of the legendary Celtic bard Ossian, believed to have lived around the 3rd century A.D. Poetry ostensibly written by Ossian was published in the early 1760's by James Macpherson (1736-1796) of Kingussie, Inverness-shire, who claimed to have copied the poems from original manuscripts, which he declined to produce.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1992; pg. 104. Skinner (Harp and Claymore Collection), 1904; p. 7 (arranged for violin and piano by Gavin Greig). Skinner (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 36.
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