Annotation:Ross Castle
X:1 T:Ross Castle M:2/4 L:1/8 R:March S:Aird – Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. II (1785) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G d/c/ | B2A2 | GG c/B/A/G/ | F/G/A/B/ A d/c/ | B2A2 | GG A/B/c/A/ | BGG :||: d/c/ | BGAD | GG c/B/A/G/ | F/G/A/B/ Ad/c/ | [GB]GAD | GG A/B/c/A/ | BGG :| |: (d/c/) | B/c/d/B/ A/B/c/B/ | GG c/B/A/G/ | F/G/A/B/ Ad/c/ | B/c/d/B/ A/B/c/A/ | GG A/B/c/A/ | BGG :|]
ROSS CASTLE. Scottish, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBBCC. The key is mistakenly given with two sharps in Glasgow musician James Aird's Selections of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 2 (1785). Interestingly, the same two-sharps mistake was entered into the music manuscript copybook of American War of Independence fifer Thomas Nixon (Connecticut), who perhaps copied it from an original or copy of Aird's publication. Another period American fifer, Giles Gibbs (East Windsor, Connecticut) also entered it into his own 1777 copybook (p. 18).