Loch Erroch Side
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Loch Erroch Side", also known as "Loch Eireachd Side" or "Loch Ericht Side"<br> is a Scottish air or slow strathspey in D Major (Cole) or C Major (Alburger, Athole,<br> Campbell, Kerr, Skye). The parts are played AB (Alburger, Cole, McGlashan, Skye),<br> AAB (Athole), AABB (Kerr) or AABCCD (Campbell).<br> Loch Erroch is the largest lake in Perthshire.<br> This tune may have been composed by Niel Gow, who played it for Robert Burns when Burns<br> visited him in Dunkeld in October, 1787 (though in later life Burns did not support<br> Gow's authorship).<br> Burns long afterwards wrote the lyric "Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay!" to the<br> tune.<br> The melody, as both a tune and song air, proved popular and appears in a number of<br> late 18th/early 19th century publications. James Johnson included it as a song in<br> The Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 (1787), as did David Sime in The Edinburgh Musical<br> Miscellany (1793).<br> An unusual Scottish country dance called Loch Erichtside (from Roxburghshire and West<br> Berwickshire) was one of the relatively few dances wholly or in part in strathspey<br> time in the early 10th century (Flett & Flett, 1964).<br> The tune resembles "The Lass of Gowrie" in this section.<br> It was printed in<br> Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3 (1788),<br> Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4 (1796),<br> Alburger's Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music (1983),<br> Joshua Campbell's A Collection of New Reels & Highland Strathspeys (1789),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Crosby's Caledonian Musical Repository (1811),<br> Gale's Pocket Companion (c. 1800),<br> Gow's Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1788),<br> Gow's The Beauties of Niel Gow, vol. 1,<br> Gow's Second Collection of Strathspey Reels (1788),<br> Graham's Popular Songs of Scotland (1908),<br> Gow & Shepherd's Complete Repository,<br> Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody (1935),<br> Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 (1787),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2,<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> McGlashan's Collection of Reels (1781),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Smith's Scottish Minstrel, vol. 2 (1820–24),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Tracy's Selection of the Present Favorite Country Dances (c. 1795),<br> Wilson's A Companion to the Ballroom (1816).<br>
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