Annotation:Ross House
X:1 % T:Ross House %R:reel B:"Scots Reel & Country Dances for the Year 1769", R.Bremner, ed. p.97 #2 F:http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=104993891 Z:2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> M:C| L:1/8 K:D % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 1 f |\ d2(TA>G) FGAc | d2(TA>F) E3c |\ d2A>G FGAg | (f/g/a) ef d3 :| |: (g |\ Tf)>ede =cdeg | Tfedf g3a |\ Tf>ede =cdeg | (f/g/a) ef d3 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V: 2 clef=bass middle=d z |\ d2d2 d2d2 | d2d2 e2e2 | d2d2 d2d2 | A2A2 D2D :| |: z |\ d2d2 =c2c2 | d2d2 d2d2 | d2d2 =c2^c2 | d2A2 D2D :| % - - - - - - - - - - Dance description - - - - - - - - - - %%begintext align %% The 1st Cu: foot it and cast of two Cu. .| %% foot it and cast up again :| %% cross over two Cu .|. %% lead up to the Top and cast off :|: %% Set corners and turn :|| %% lead outsides and turn :||: %%endtext %%sep 2 2 400
ROSS HOUSE. AKA and see "Miss Hamilton (3)." Scottish, Country Dance Tune and Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Neil Stewart's Collection of the Newest and Best Reels or Country Dances (p. 26), variously dated as 1761 and 1775. The same melody was also printed in London by Thomas Straight and Thomas Skillern in Two Hundred & Four Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1 (1775, p. 38) and by Skillern in Skillern's Compleat Collection of Two Hundred & Four Reels...Country Dances (1780). There are similarities to “Peggy Menzies” but they differ enough so that they may not be cognate.
The tune was entered in the music manuscript collection of Joshua Gibbons as "Miss Hamilton (3)," but that title seems unique to that MS.