Annotation:Castles in the Air

Tune properties and standard notation

CASTLES IN THE AIR. AKA and see "Wee Willie Winkie/Winkle." English, Scottish, Irish; Reel, Schottische or Slow Strathspey. A Major (Roche): G Major (Raven): E Flat Major (Hardie). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Hardie, Kennedy): ABB (Roche): AABB (Cole). The tune is associated with the children's rhyme "Wee Willie Winkie/Winkle." James Dickie transformed the song into a slow strathspey, printed in Hardie's Beauties of the North.

Source for notated version: James F. Dickie (Scotland) [Hardie].

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 81 (mistakenly listed in the 'Jig' section). Hardie (Caledonian Companion), 1986; p. 44 (strathspey version). Kennedy (Fiddler's Tune Book), vol. 1, 1951; No. 44, p. 22. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 176. Roche Collection, 1927; vol. 3, p. 47, No. 145. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 114.

Recorded sources: Fretless Records 119, Rodney and Randy Miller--"Castles in the Air."

Tune properties and standard notation