Blue Ribbon Scottish Measure

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Theme code Index	3112 5225
Also known as
Composer/Core Source
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	F
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Niel & Nathaniel Gow
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Complete Repository Part 2
Tune and/or Page number	pp. 4-5
Year of publication/Date of MS	1802
Artist	Biography:William Jackson
Title of recording	Duan Albanach
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Mill Records MRCD018
Year recorded	2003
Media
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BLUE RIBBON SCOTTISH MEASURE. AKA and see "Blue Ribbon at the Bound Rod." Scottish, Scottish Measure or Strathspey ("Slowish"). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune was later renamed by Niel Gow, but was originally published in the Skene MS., c. 1610, as "Blue Ribbon at Bound Rod." Robin Williamson speculates that the title may refer to a gathering staff for soldiers or a boundary road, and notes that the border at Berwick on Tweed was called the bound rod at one time. The melody was published by Gow in his Repository, Part Second, 1802, under the above title. It is correctly classified as a Scottish Measure, having the characteristic emphasis on the first three beats of the bar, with the phrase beginning on the up-beat.

Printed sources: Carlin (Gow Collection), 1986; No. 12. Emmerson (Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String), 1971; No. 24, p. 127. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 2, 1802; pp. 4-5.

Recorded sources: Flying Fish, Robin Williamson - "Legacy of the Scottish Harpers, vol. 2" (Skene version). Mill Records MRCD018, William Jackson - "Duan Albanach" (2003).

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T:Blue Ribbon Scottish Measure
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L:1/8
R:Scotch Measure
S:Gow - 2nd Repository  (1802)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:F
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(ag)fd (fd)cA|{A} d2G2G2 cB|BAGF a2 ga|f4 f2:|
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