Annotation:Rossie House

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X:1 T:Rossie House M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig or Air Q:”Slow” B:Archibald Duff – Collection of Strathspey Reels &c. (1794, p. 4) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G B/c/|d>ed dBc|dBg dBG|E>FG ABG|FDD D2 B/c/| d>ed dBc|dBg dBG|EW>FG AGF|G3G,2:| |:F/G/|A>BA AFD|AFd {B}AG/F/E/D/|d>ed dBG|dBg {e}dc/B/A/G/| g>ag gec|dBg dBG|E>FG {B}AGF|G3 G,2:|]

ROSSIE HOUSE. Scottish, Double Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Rossie House" first appears in Aberdeenshire fiddler-composer Archibald Duff's collection of 1794. The title probably refers to Rossie House in Perthsire rather than the one in Fife. The melody was also entered into the 1840 music manuscript collection (p. 247) of multi-instrumentalist John Rook of Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria.

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Printed sources : - James Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 110, p. 42. Archibald Duff (Collection of Strathspey Reels &c.), 1794; p. 4. O'Neill (O’Neill’s Irish Music), 1915; No. 196, p. 106.

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