Perthshire Hunt
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Perthshire Hunt", also known as "The Perth Hunt", "Boyne Hunt”, "Highland Skip",<br> "Molly Maguire”, "Niel Gow's Reel”, "The Persian Hunt”, "The Popcorn”, "Richmond Hill" or<br> "The Sailor’s Trip to Liverpool" is a Scottish and Canadian reel in A Major<br> (most versions), D Major (Miller, Ross) or C Major (Jones). The parts are played<br> AB (Surenne), AAB (most versions), AABB (Honeyman) or AABB’ (Athole).<br> The melody was composed by Miss Magdalene Stirling (1765–1846) of Ardoch Perthshire<br> around 1788. The Stirlings were an old Perthshire family, a branch of whom held lands<br> in the parish of Muthill. Magdalene was a friend of Niel Gow and his son Nathaniel,<br> who published a few of her compositions in their publications. She also published<br> compositions under her own name.<br> Caoimhin Mac Aoidh (1994) maintains the tune was commissioned for the Perthshire Hunt<br> Ball, an annual social event sponsored by the Perthshire Hunt, a gentleman's club.<br> In America the melody was published in Baltimore by George P. Knauff in his Virginia<br> Reels, volume II (1839) as "Richmond Hill" and in Ireland the reel is well-known by<br> the title "Boyne Hunt". A few 19th century English musicians' manuscripts give the<br> title as "The Persian Hunt", a corruption of the title "Perthshire Hunt".<br> It was printed in Anderson's Anderson's Budget of Strathspeys, Reels & Country Dances<br> (1820),<br> Glen's Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 2 (1895),<br> Gow's Second Collection of Niel Gow's Reels (1788),<br> Honeyman's Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor (1898),<br> Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988,<br> Jones' Complete Tutor Violin (c. 1815),<br> Kennedy's Fiddler's Tune-Book, vol. 2 (1954) (as "Persian Hunt"),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880’s) (appears as "The Perth Hunt"),<br> Joseph Lowe's Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 5 (1859),<br> MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887),<br> Mackintosh's Collection of Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs, &c. (after 1797),<br> Martin's Traditional Scottish Fiddling (2002),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music, vol. 3 (1977),<br> Offord's Bonny Cumberland (2018),<br> Preston's 24 Country Dances for the Year 1804,<br> Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) (as "Persian Hunt"),<br> Ross' Collection of Pipe Music (1869),<br> Skinner's The Scottish Violinist (1900),<br> Skinner's Harp and Claymore (1904),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Stirling's Twelve Tunes (1812) and<br> Surenne's Dance Music of Scotland (1852).<br> It was recorded by Joe MacLean on Joe MacLean and His Old Time Scottish Fiddle (1977) and<br> Michael Coleman on The Musical Glory of Old Sligo (1967).<br>
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