Dunkeld House
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Dunkeld House", also known as "Frogs' Frolic" or "Jackson's Rowly Powly" is a Scottish jig in<br> E Minor. The parts are played AAB (Gow, Hunter, Jones), AABB (Köhlers’) or AABB' (Johnson).<br> It was composed by the famous Scots fiddler-composer Niel Gow (1727-1807) around the 1770's<br> for his patron John Murray, the Duke of Atholl - Dunkeld House in Perthshire was one of<br> his seats and lies "no more than a stone's throw" from Inver, the birthplace of the great<br> fiddler. Gow's remains repose in the churchyard of Little Dunkeld.<br> It was first published in Gow's First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1784). The name<br> Dunkeld means the 'fort of the Caledonians' and refers to the people that dominated the<br> central lowlands of Scotland during the time of the Romans.<br> Dunkeld has been much fought over. It was raided by Vikings in 903 and by Malcolm of Moray<br> in 1027; it was the site of MacBeth's victory over Crinan and Maldred in 1045. In 1689<br> Captain Munro massacred an army of Highland supporters of James VII there. Dunkeld House<br> itself was a mansion built by Sir William Bruce in 1676-84 for the 1st Marquis of Atholl.<br> The house survived until 1827 when it was demolished to make room for a neo-Gothic structure<br> that was never completed.<br> The version known as "Frogs' Frolic" is very similar, particularly in the A part and is probably<br> "Dunkeld House" amended by memory lapses of players over the years. Unlike "Frogs' Frolic", the<br> B part is a square 16 measures long.<br> The tune was printed in Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Collinson's The Traditional and National Music of Scotland (1966),<br> Gow's The First Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1784) (revised 1801),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992),<br> Johnson's Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century (1984),<br> Jones' Complete Tutor Violin (c. 1815),<br> Köhlers’ Violin Repository, Book 2 (1881-1885) and<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).<br> It was recorded by Bonnie Rideout on Scottish Fire (2000).<br>
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