Dornoch Links
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dornoch Links", in Gaelic "Lingis Dhornich", also known as<br> "Billy Malley's Schottische" or "Joe Bane's" is a Scottish pipe<br> march or quickstep in 2/4 time and A Mixolydian. The parts are<br> played AAB (Gunn) or AABB (Kerr, Martin).<br> Dornoch Links is one of the earliest locations where the game of<br> golf is recorded to have been played, in 1616, although formal<br> permission to play was only granted to the Sutherland Golfing<br> Society in 1877. Dornoch is about an hour north of Inverness,<br> in the Scottish Highlands.<br> The march has been attributed to John MacDonald (1821-1893) of<br> Tiree, a pipe major for the 79th Cameron Highlanders from<br> 1840-1849 and composer of the popular "79th's Farewell to<br> Gibralter" and "Lord Panmure's March".<br> "Dornoch Links" appeared to Samuel Bayard to be a set of the<br> derivative melody he collected in southwestern Pennsylvania as<br> "Hazel Dean".<br> A version of the tune is played in East County Clare as a<br> barndance or schottische under the titles "Joe Bane's" and<br> "Billy Malley's Schottische" after a tin whistle player and<br> fiddler, respectively, from the region who were sometime playing<br> partners.<br> It was printed in Gunn's The Caledonian Repository of Music<br> Adapted for the Bagpipes (1848),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880) and<br> Martin's Ceol na Fidhle, vol. 3 (1988).<br> It was recorded by Robert Kirk (2nd in set with "Oh Nannie"<br> and "Miss Rattray") (78 RPM). <br>
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