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T:Tiviot Bridge
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B:Calvert Collection - Page 11
N:Now known as Teviot Brig. The Teviot flows into the Tweed just West of
N:Kelso. This bridge is almost certainly the one over the Teviot, a
N:mile out of Kelso.
Z:P Whittaker
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f | ecA E2 A | F2A E2A | ABA A2c | {ABc}d2cB2A |
ABA E2 A | F2A E2c| {c}[d2f2]b ecA | ~B2 A/2B/2 [C2A2]||
f | ece ece | fdf fga | ece ecA | BGE EGf |
ece fdf |{fg}agf edc| [d2f2]b ecA | ~B2 A/2B/2 [C2A2]||
Jim Barton / Teviot Bridge near Kelso / CC BY-SA 2.0TEVIOT BRIDGE/BRIG. AKA - "Tiviot Bridge." AKA and see “Boys of Ballinafad (The).” AKA – "Paddy Mullin's," “Pivot Brig (The),” “Tiviot Brig,” "Teviot/Tiviot Jig." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Jig (6/8 time). Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. G Major (Skye): A Major (Athole, Gow, Hunter, Kerr, Neil, Perlman, Phillips, Sweet). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Neil): AAB (Athole, Gow, Hunter): ABB (Skye): AABB (Kerr, Phillips, Sweet): AA’BB (Cranford/Fitzgerald): AA’BB’ (Perlman). Teviot Bridge is located in Kelso. "Tiviot Bridge"[1] was composed by fiddler-composer Alexander Givan (1752-1803) of Kelso and issued in a small folio accompanied with several of his other compositions by the Edinburgh publishing concern of Gow & Shepherd c. 1810. An earlier printing appears in Thomas Calvert’s 1799 collection. Calvert was a musician from Kelso and a note with his collection states that Calvert supplied “a variety of music and instruments, instruments lent out, tun’d and repaired.” The tune has been associated with a particular country dance. It was included in the 1840 music manuscript collection (p. 212) of Cumbrian musician John Rook (Waverly). The jig was esteemed by Cape Breton fiddler Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald. See also the Irish “Father Hanley's Jig” which shares a similar second part (and which tune New York Irish fiddler Andy McGann used to pair “Teviot Bridge” with).
Scottish fiddler-composer James Scott Skinner (1843 – 1927) arranged the tune as the first part of "Ettrick Vale Quadrille, No. 1"[1]
Additional notes Source for notated version : - Ron West (Vt.) [Phillips]; Gus Longaphie (b. 1914, Little Harbor, North-East Kings County, Prince Edward Island; now resident of Souris) [Perlman]; Winston Fitzgerald (1914-1987, Cape Breton) [Cranford].
Printed sources : - Anonymous (A Companion to the reticule), 1833; p. 29 (as “Tiviot Brig”). Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 70 (appears as “The Pivot Brig”). Cranford (Winston Fitzgerald), 1997; No. 173, p. 69. Gow (Complete Repository, Part 4), 1817; p. 24. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 304. Jarman (Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes), No. or p. 16. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880; p. 31. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; p. 176. Neil (The Scots Fiddle), 1991; No. 27, p. 36. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; p. 141. Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 2), 1995; p. 381 (appears as "Teviot Jig"). Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 102 (as “Pivot Brig”). Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 157. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 134. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; p. 27.
Recorded sources : - Celestial Entertainment CECS001, Brenda Stubbert (Cape Breton) - “In Jig Time!” (1995). Chonnachta CICD 173, Brian Conway – “Consider the Source” (2008). Fretless 132, "Ron West: Vermont Fiddler." Parlophone F. 3486 (78 RPM), Jimmy Shand and His Band (). Rounder Records 7057, Jerry Holland – “Parlor Music” (2005). Springthyme SPRCD 1044, Tom Hughes and Friends - "Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders" (2015). Smithsonian Folkways Records, SFW CD 40507, The Beaton Family of Mabou – “Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music” (2004).
