Rosslyn Castle
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Rosyln Castle", also known as "The House of Glamis" is a Scottish, English and American<br> march and air in 2/4 or 4/4 time in E Minor or C Minor. It is sometimes presented in one or two<br> parts and in a few instances the parts are repeated.<br> The title is variously given as Rosland, Rosline, Roseland, Roslin and Rosslyn Castle.<br> The melody is a British march used by the English army during the Revolutionary War<br> period. The tune was the melody most often associated with funerals during the Revolution, and<br> legend has it that it was played by Scottish bagpipers stationed in New York at the time, in<br> honor of the castle at Roslyn, Midlothian, Scotland.<br> The dirge was played when Washington's Farewell Address was read to the troops encamped at<br> Newburgh, New York, on their disbandment in 1783. <br> Rosyln Castle existed in Angus, Scotland since the early 14th century (c. 1304), when it was<br> built by Sir William St. Clair soon after the Battle of Rosslyn, when, as part of the Scottish<br> War of Independence, the English army of Edward I was decimated by the Scots. <br> Recently, the castle was featured in Dan Brown’s book and film The Da Vinci Code.<br> The tune was printed in Camus's Military Music of the American Revolution (1976),<br> Hardie's Caledonian Companion (1992),<br> Henderson's Flowers of Scottish Melody (1935),<br> Howe's Part Three of the Musician's Companion (1844),<br> Hunter's Fiddle Music of Scotland (1988),<br> Mattson & Walz's Old Fort Snelling…Fife (1974),<br> McGibbon's Collection of Scots Tunes for the Violin or German Flute, Book II (1746),<br> Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, vol. 2 (1977),<br> Neil's The Scots Fiddle (1991),<br> Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. IV (1752) and<br> Sumner's Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript (1997). <br> It was recorded by The Melstock Band on The Dance at the Phoenix: Village Band Music from<br> Hardy’s Wessex and Beyond,<br> Dave Shepherd & Becky Price,<br> Alasdair Fraser & Tony MacManus on Return to Kintail (1999) and<br> Abby Newton on Castles, Kirks and Caves (2001).<br>
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