Scottish Fiddle Tunes

60 Scottish tunes for solo violin, including slow airs, strathspeys, reels, and jigs. Includes detailed explanations of traditional playing styles, ornamentation, and bowing techniques, as well as notes on the history of the fiddle in Scotland. The CD features all tunes performed by Iain Fraser.

Songs Include:

• Andrew Carr (Traditional)
• Argyle Bowling Green (Traditional)
• Bog an Lochan (Traditional)
• Bovaglie's Plaid (Skinner)
• Calum Breugach (Traditional)
• Captain Keelers (Traditional)
• Colonel MacBean (Traditional)
• Craigellachie Bridge (Marshall)
• Cropie's Strathspey (Milne)
• Earl Grey (Hill)
• Earl of Hyndford (Traditional)
• Ferintosh (Traditional)
• Fingal's Cave (Traditional)
• Flora MacDonald (Traditional)
• H. Mackworth Esq. (Skinner)
• Hard is my Fate (Fraser)
• Hard is my Fate (original version) (Fraser)
• In Dispraise of Whisky (Traditional)
• Jenny Dang the Weaver (Traditional)
• John Cameron has Lizzie Steel Again his Wife (original version) (Traditional)
• John Cameron has Lizzie Steel Again his Wife (Traditional)
• John Cheap the Chapman (Traditional)
• Lord MacDonald's (Traditional)
• Miss Dundas of Arniston (Traditional)
• Miss Gordon of Gight (Cooper)
• Miss Lyall (Traditional)
• Miss Margaret Brown (Gow)
• Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston (Gow)
• Mrs. A. MacGlashan (MacGlashan)
• Mrs. Major L. Stewart of the Island of Java (Marshall)
• Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Brother (Gow)
• Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife (Gow)
• Perth Assembly (Duncan)
• Pretty Peggy (Traditional)
• Roslin Castle (Oswald)
• Rothiemurcus Rant (Traditional)
• Silverwells (Skinner)
• Sir Charles Forbes of Newe and Edinglassie (Marshall)
• Sitting in the Stern of a Boat (McLeod)
• Tail Toddle (Traditional)
• The Bedding of the Bride (Traditional)
• The Braes of Tulliemet (Traditional)
• The Ewie with the Crooked Horn (Traditional)
• The Favourite Dram (Traditional)
• The Forth Bridge (Blyth)
• The Laddie with the Plaidie (Traditional)
• The Lads o' Duns (Traditional)
• The Lass o' Corrie's Mill (Traditional)
• The Lasses o' Duns (Traditional)
• The Lea Rig (Traditional)
• The Marquis of Huntly's Snuff Mill (Gow/Marshall)
• The Old Reel (Traditional)
• The Peerie Weerie (Traditional)
• The Sailor's Wife (Gow)
• The Smith's a Gallant Fireman (Traditional)
• The Stewarts of Grandtully (Gow)
• The Stool of Repentance (Traditional)
• The Warlocks (Lowe)
• The Witches (Lowe)
• Tulchan Lodge (Skinner)