Braes of Busbie
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Braes of Busbie", also known as "Braes of Bushbie", "The Breeze of Busbey" or "Duke of<br> Sutherland's March" is a Scottish slow march in 4/4 time or Strathspey in A Dorian (Aird,<br> O'Farrell), G Minor (Cole, Hardie), G Dorian (Cranford). The parts are played ABC (Cole, Hardy),<br> AABBCC (O'Farrell), ABABCCD (Howe) or AABBCCD (Cranford).<br> In lowland Scots dialect, a brae is a hillside. Busby is a district in Renfrewshire, Scotland.<br> The melody may have been composed by John Bowie and first appears in his Collection (1789).<br> A note in Nathaniel Gow's Sixth Collection (1822) says that it was favorite of Niel Gow's and<br> that it is "Old".<br> In Ireland, Co. Leitrim piper and fiddler Stephen Grier entered the tune, set as a reel,<br> in Book 2 of his c. 1883 music manuscript collection as "Breeze of Busbey". Reworked as<br> "Dowd's Favorite", the reel was famously recorded by Sligo/New York City fiddler Michael Coleman.<br> Piper Willie Clancy had a reel time setting of the tune, called "Braes of Busby" in a major<br> tonality.<br> The version given here is from Aird.<br> It was printed in Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6 (1803),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Cranford's Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes (1995),<br> Gow's Sixth Collection of Strathspeys, Reels and Slow Tunes (1822),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992),<br> Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody (1935),<br> Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (1867),<br> McFadyen's Repository of Scots and Irish Airs, vol. 1 (c. 1795),<br> O'Farrell's Pocket Companion, vol. 2 (c. 1806),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883)(strathspey setting).<br> It was recorded by Jordi Savall on The Celtic Viol. II (2010) and<br> Jerry O'Sullivan on O'Sullivan meets O'Farrell (2005).<br>
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