Annotation:Highland Skip (1) (The)
X:1 T:Highland Skip [1], The M:C| L:1/16 R:Country Dance Tune B:William Campbell – “Campbell’s 12th Book of New and Favorite Country Dances & B:Strathspey Reels for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as B:Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms” (Soho, London, c. 1797, p. 13) F:https://vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9a/IMSLP655932-PMLP1052069-campbells12thboo00camp.pdf Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F V:1 F2|cF3c2A2 cF3c2A2|cF3c3A c6f2|cF3c3A cF3c3A|fd3c3A G6f2| cF3c2A2 cF3c2A2|cF3c3A c6f2|cF3c2f2 d3fc3f|cF3c3A G6|| d2|cA3f3A aA3f3A|cA3f3A (c4 c3)d|cA3f3A aA3f3A|cF3c3A G4 G3A| cA3f3c aA3f3A|cA3f3A c4 c3d|cA3f3A c3df3g|(ag).f.d (fd).c.A G6|| V:2 clef = bass z2|F,,4F,4F,,4F,4|F,,4F,4F,4F,4|F,,4F,4F,,4F,4|F,4F,4 C6z2| F,,4F,4F,,4F,4|F,,4F,4F,4F,4|F,4F,4F,4F,4|F,,4F,4C6|| z2|F,4F,4F,4F,4 |F,4F,4C,4z4|F,4F,4F,4F,4|F,,4F,4C,4z4| F,4F,4F,4F,4 |F,4F,4C,4z4|F,4F,4F,8|F,4F,4C6||
HIGHLAND SKIP [1]. AKA and see "Honorable George Baillie's Strathspey." Scottish, Reel. F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Glen, Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow). Composed by Daniel Dow, an Edinburgh composer and music teacher who lived from 1732 to 1783, perhaps most famous as the composer of "Money Musk." "The Highland Skip" was considered among Dow's best compositions, in the opinion of Mr. Troup of Ballater [Baptie, Musical Scotland, Past and Present, 1894, p. 46). Dow published a collection of Scots tunes called Thirty-seven new reels and strathspeys (1775) which appears to be the first collection to include the word "strathspey" in its title. His family is known to have stayed in Strathardle and his son (John Dow) was born at Kirkmichael. Dow, whose first name has been given as Daniel or Donald (both acceptable translations for the Gaelic 'Domhnull') was buried in the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh on January 20th, 1783. "Highland Skip" appear in Dow's 1776 collection (p. 22). Some believe Niel Gow plagerized the tune when he retitled it "Honorable George Baillie's Strathspey" in his First Collection (1801), though Alburger (1983) believes the tunes are not the same. However, it received the correct attribution to Dow by the Gows in their Repository, Part Third, 1806.
