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The Scots fiddle. Volume 1, Tunes, tales & traditions

Neil, J. Murray1999
Books, Manuscripts
The first of a three-volume extended edition of "The Scots Fiddle", this text combines an extensive collection of traditional fiddle music (over 160 tunes) with background narratives and anecdotes on the history, legends and traditions associated with the music, and biographical sketches on composers and song-writers, and instruction on playing, through the provision of bowings and finger-board positions. The book is also illustrated throughout with steel engravings. The music provided includes slow airs, pastorals, strathspeys, reels, jigs, hornpipes and marches, tunes from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as new composi
Author:
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
Glasgow : Neil Wilson, 1999.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1991.
ISBN:
18977848649781897784860
Dewey class:
787.21629163787.1787.2
Local class:
787.2AZ7.4
Language:
English
BRN:
363124
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