East Neuk of Fife
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The East Neuk of Fife" was composed by Scottish cellist-composer James Oswald<br> (c. 1711–1769) and included in his Caledonian Pocket Companion, Book 4 (1752) as<br> "She griped at the greatest on't".<br> It is an example of a kind of tune common in Scottish melody, where the opening<br> is in the major mode and the close in the minor.<br> Bayard (1981) collected versions of the tune as "Green Grow the Rushes O" or by the<br> floating title (in America) "Over the Hills and Far Away". His march "The Snouts and<br> Ears of America", collected from Pennsylvania fiddler Sarah Armstrong, is also a<br> distanced derivative.<br> The East Neuk of Fife is that part of Scotland's county of Fife that juts into the<br> North Sea and contains the town of St. Andrews, the ancestral home of golf.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 1<br> (1778),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986),<br> Cooke's The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles (1986),<br> Emmerson's Rantin' Pipe and Tremblin' String (1971),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992),<br> Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody (1935),<br> Howe's First Part of the Musician's Companion (1842),<br> Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 3 (1787–1803),<br> Johnson's Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century (1983),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1,<br> Laybourn's Köhler's Violin Repository, vol. 1 (1881),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> McGibbon's Collection of Scots Tunes, vol. 3 (c. 1762),<br> McGlashan's Collection of Scots Measures (177?),<br> Perlman's The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island (1996),<br> Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904) and<br> The Scottish Violinist (1900),<br> Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 2 (1820–24),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Thompson's A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, vol. 4 (1805),<br> Williamson's English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976) and<br> Wilson's A Companion to the Ballroom (1816).<br> It was recorded by Eileen Ivers on "Eileen Ivers" (1994) (Recorded in duet with<br> Natalie MacMaster),<br> Golden Bough on Songs Of Scotland (2008),<br> The Scottish Fiddle Festival Orchestra on Scottish Traditional Fiddle Music (1978) and<br> J. Scott Skinner on The Strathspey King (1975).<br>
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