Angus Campbell
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Angus Campbell" is a Scottish reel in cut time and A major. The parts are played<br> AA'BB'.<br> The tune is the product of Scottish composer and fiddle virtuoso<br> J. Scott Skinner (1842–1927), who coined it a "concert reel" (tempo 136).<br> Skinner used the same melodic motif fashioned into a strathspey called<br> "The Laird o' Drumblair Strathspey"<br> and the two were written as companion pieces (the reel following the strathspey).<br> The melody quickly found its way into traditional repertory on both sides of the<br> Atlantic and can now even be heard played by American Mid-West fiddlers as well as<br> Canadian and New England musicians.<br> It was printed in Bégin's Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood (1985),<br> Bohrer's Vic Kibler: Adirondack Fiddler (1992),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Hinds/Hébert's Grumbling Old Woman (1981),<br> Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Jarman's Old Time Fiddlin' Tunes (1951),<br> Messer's Way Down East Fiddlin' Tunes (1948) and<br> Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes (1980),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994),<br> Silberberg's Fiddle Tunes I Learned at the Tractor Tavern (2002) and<br> Skinner's The Scottish Violinist (1900) and<br> Harp and Claymore (1904).<br> It was recorded by Jana Greif on I Love Fiddlin',<br> Lonnie Robertson on Fiddle Favorites,<br> Graham and Eleanor Townsend on Graham and Eleanor Townsend Live at Barre, Vermont,<br> The Campbell Family on The Campbell Family — Champion Fiddlers,<br> Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977),<br> Leo Beaudoin on Old Time Fiddler's Contest 7/30/77,<br> Sonja Nordstrom on Old Time Fiddler's Contest 7/26/75,<br> Taylor McBaine on Boone County Fiddler,<br> Kelly Jones on Authentic Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and<br> Jay Ungar and Lyn Hardy on Catskill Mountain Goose Chase (1977).<br>
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