Music

The following link National Folk Festival - Music gives you access to the list of tunes to be played at the NFF at Easter.

There is a wealth of music available for the Scottish Fiddler in many different formats. We are currently indexing a range of sheet music readily available through both normal and folk music shops. Once indexed we will make a flat file database available through these pages enabling you the fiddler to find the location of tunes you may have heard either in concerts or during sessions. Interestingly quite a number of Scottish tunes are being heard at what are normally considered to be Irish sessions these days. This is over and above the tunes that are common to both repertoires.

If you are looking for sheet music on the web there are many sources and most use a method of transcription designed for the PC and the Net called ABC. This is a method of transcribing music into ASCII text which can be read by normal text editors. There are numerous programmes that can read ABC format and play the tunes on several platforms including both PC's and Mac's. One such programme is ABC2WIN developed by Jim Vint and available for download from his homepage, this programme is shareware and requires registration to allow the printing of scores but is fully functional otherwise. Registration is recommended and the programme is excellent value and is used here to create most of the ABC files on this site.

For more information and other links see the abc homepage

In addition, tunes are also available in midi format if this more to your liking on many sites and these give you the ability to listen through a soundcard or attached midi enabled keyboard together with the many additional benefits of midi.

You will find numerous other programmes around the web that use ABC format and the above links should provide some base addresses worthy of deeper investigation. Many pages contain substantial lists of tunes in ABC format. Either the abc homepage or Jim Vint's is a good start. Or you might just start with our links page and try some of the links in the sheet music section.

The Sydney Scottish Fiddlers hope to be performing along with the Melbourne and Canberra Fiddlers at the next National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter 2002. The group is being organised by Canberra, this year. Common tunes will be made available when they have been decided upon.

To help our members we have listed below, in a table, tunes that we play or use for teaching on a regular basis. We have also provided a number of these in ABC and/or Midi formatted files available for download. (Please note if we have inadvertantly included a file or tune over which you have copyright we apologise and would like to hear from you so that we can withdraw the offending item) It is our intention to include snippets in RealAudio format where we have them played by the Sydney Scottish Fiddlers. This table has been recently reordered and an ABC file of the tunes within the table is available for download. In addition an Excel Spreadsheet of the table is also available (38kb, 10s @ 56kbaud).

Please note that the ABC and Midi files are representative of the tune but when played back will not provide that essentially Scottish feel you are used to. This is a function of note timing which is almost impossible to reproduce in either Midi or ABC without making the dots incomprehensible. There is no doubt that "live is better" with regards to Scottish music. Another interesting point is that tunes played in one set are often played differently in other sets (ie 4/4 in one set but 2/4 in others, viz Soldiers Joy) this makes the tune file slightly less than perfect as I have included only one example of each tune. As a result some abc listings might need to be changed for specific dances, but you will get the gist of it from these files.

• Old Tune List with Graphics (1,654kb)

• New Excel Spreadsheet (38kb)

• ABC File of Dances (37kb)

• ABC File of Tunes

Sydney Scottish Fiddlers - Tunes

Tune	Key	Type	# in File	ABC	Midi	Used in Dance Set
60th Summer Assembly	G	Strathspey	137	SSF_Dances		D56
72nd Highlander's Farewell to Edinburgh	D	Reel	76	SSF_Dances		D30,D52,D71
Aitken Drum	G	Reel	61	SSF_Dances		D21,D37,D76
Anderson's Jig	C	Jig	17	SSF_Dances		D5
Angus Campbell	A	Strathspey	111	SSF_Dances		D45
At the Fair	C	Reel	136	SSF_Dances		D55
Australian Ladies	D	Reel	52	SSF_Dances		D18
Balmoral	A	Strathspey	141	SSF_Dances		D70
Barley Cakes	G	Jig	69	SSF_Dances		D25
Barren Rocks of Aden	D	Reel	135	SSF_Dances		D54
Barrowburn Reel	D	Reel	50	SSF_Dances		D16,D45,d67
Battle of Waterloo	Am	Reel	67	SSF_Dances		D24
Blair Athole	Am	Reel	112	SSF_Dances		D45,D53
Blue Bonnets	Bb	Jig	140	SSF_Dances		D69
Blue Water Waltz	G	Waltz	100	SSF_Dances		D41, D78
Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord	A	Strathspey	22	SSF_Dances		D6
Braes of Breadalbane	Am	Strathspey	128	SSF_Dances		D51
Bung Your Eye	Am	Jig	24	SSF_Dances		D32,D73
Caddam Wood	A	Reel	143	SSF_Dances		D71
Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle	A	Reel	77	SSF_Dances		D30,D52
Campbell's Frolic	A	Jig	123	SSF_Dances		D49
Captain Campbell	G	Strathspey	11	SSF_Dances		D3,D20,D39,D70
Castle in the Air	A	Strathspey	105	SSF_Dances		D44
Charlie Hunter	D	Jig	95	SSF_Dances		D38,D40
Christian Catto	F	Jig	114	SSF_Dances		D47,D69
Cairin 'O't	A	Reel	133	SSF_Dances		D53
Cock o' the North	A	Jig	56	SSF_Dances		D19,D28
Corn Rigs	D	Reel	14	SSF_Dances		D4,D16,D45,D79
Cortes Gardens	Em	Strathspey	58	SSF_Dances		D20
Courtesan's Jig	D	type	116	SSF_Dances		D47
Cradle Song, the	A	Jig	138	SSF_Dances		D66
Craighall	A	Jig	19	SSF_Dances		D5,D12,D25,D73
Cropie's Strathspey	G	Strathspey	30	SSF_Dances		D8,D10,D35,D75
da Rodd ta Houll	D	Reel	144	SSF_Dances		D80
Dashing White Sergeant, the	D	Reel	87	SSF_Dances		D35
Davie Taylor	G	Strathspey	57	SSF_Dances		D20,D39,D77
Deuks Dang o'er My Daddie, the	D	Jig	47	SSF_Dances		D15
De'il Amang the Tailors	A	Reel	31	SSF_Dances		D9
Doc Boyd's Jig	C	Jig	96	SSF_Dances		D38
Dr Finlay	G	Jig	80	SSF_Dances		D31
Drummond Castle	Am	Jig	4	SSF_Dances		D1,D13,D19,D26
Drunken Piper, the	Am	Reel	75	SSF_Dances		D30
Duchess Tree, the	D	Strathspey	139	SSF_Dances		D66
Durham Rangers	D	Reel	44	SSF_Dances		D14,D18,D45
Earl of Angus and Arran	G	Strathspey	9	SSF_Dances		D3
Far Frae Home	G	Reel	32	SSF_Dances		D9,D34
Ferry, the	A	Jig	2	SSF_Dances		D1,D15,D26
Fiddler's Whim	D	Jig	25	SSF_Dances		D7,D73
Fine Times	A	Reel	121	SSF_Dances		D48
Fisherman, the	G	Reel	73	SSF_Dances		D29
Flowers of Edinburgh	G	Reel	49	SSF_Dances		D16,D67,D80
Flowers of Quern	G	Strathspey	92	SSF_Dances		D36,D68
Four & Twenty	C	Reel	117	SSF_Dances		D48
Garry Strathspey	G/D/C	Strathspey	51	SSF_Dances		D17
General Stuart's Reel	A	type	109	SSF_Dances		D45
Gillian's Reel	A	Reel	13	SSF_Dances		D4
Grafton Sawyer	D	Reel	122	SSF_Dances		D48
Grand Slam	A	Reel	66	SSF_Dances		D24
Green Grow the Rashes O'	G	type	107	SSF_Dances		D44
Greenholm	G	Jig	83	SSF_Dances		D32,D49
Haddington Assembly	G	Jig	127	SSF_Dances		D50
Haughs of Cromdale	Em	Strathspey	106	SSF_Dances		D44,D51,D70
High Road to Linton	A	Reel	43	SSF_Dances		D14
Hills of Lorne, the	D	Strathspey	91	SSF_Dances		D36,D68
Hundred Pipers, the	C	Jig	72	SSF_Dances		D19,D28
Hurlock's Reel	A	Reel	7	SSF_Dances		D2,D27,D80
Irish Washerwoman	G	Jig	98	SSF_Dances		D40
John McAlpine	A	Strathspey	142	SSF_Dances		D70
Jordan	G	Reel	119	SSF_Dances		D48
Jump at the Sun	Dm	Jig	99	SSF_Dances		D40,D47
Kelloholm Jig	G	Jig	55	SSF_Dances		D19
Kenmure's On and Awa'	G	Jig	126	SSF_Dances		D50
Kinloss	D	Strathspey	108	SSF_Dances		D44
Kirrie Kebbuch	D	Strathspey	12	SSF_Dances		D3,D20
Laird of Drumblair	A	Strathspey	29	SSF_Dances		D8
Liberton Pipe Band	D	Reel	68	SSF_Dances		D24
Lochmaben Hornpipe	D	Reel	6	SSF_Dances		D2
Lord Randell's Blade	D	Reel	78	SSF_Dances		D30
Machine Without Horses	G	Jig	40	SSF_Dances		D12
Macpherson's Blade	Em	March	53	SSF_Dances		D18,D30
Mairi's Wedding	D	Reel	59	SSF_Dances		D21
Margaret Anne Robertson	A	Waltz	102	SSF_Dances		D41,D78
Mason's Apron	A	Reel	34	SSF_Dances		D9
Maxwell's Rant	F	Reel	36	SSF_Dances		D11
Meeting of the Waters, the	D	March	65	SSF_Dances		D24
Middlin' Thank You	G	Jig	20	SSF_Dances		D5,D15,D22
Minstrel Boy	A	Strathspey	90	SSF_Dances		D36
Miss Brady	Em	Reel	110	SSF_Dances		D45
Miss Clementina Stewart	A	Reel	132	SSF_Dances		D53
Miss Gayton	G	Reel	16	SSF_Dances		D4
Miss Gordon of Liverpool	F	Jig	63	SSF_Dances		D22
Miss Jean Stewart	A	Strathspey	97	SSF_Dances		D39
Miss Murray of Lintrose	A	Reel	37	SSF_Dances		D11,D35,D37,D79
Miss Susan Cooper	D	Reel	46	SSF_Dances		D14
Mrs Hamilton	A	Strathspey	27	SSF_Dances		D8
Mrs Mcleod	A	Reel	15	SSF_Dances		D4
Muckin of Geordie's Byre	D	Jig	18	SSF_Dances		D5,D22,D50
Muirland Willie	Em	Jig	125	SSF_Dances		D50
Music o' Spey	A	Strathspey	94	SSF_Dances		D36,D68
My Dearie	G	Strathspey	89	SSF_Dances		D36
Never on Sunday	G	Song	103	SSF_Dances		D42
Newton Park	D	Jig	86	SSF_Dances		D33
North of the Grampians	C	Strathspey	10	SSF_Dances		D3,D75
Off She Goes	D	Jig	124	SSF_Dances		D49
Old Grey Cat, the	Em	Reel	88	SSF_Dances		D35
Peggies Wedding	C	Jig	41	SSF_Dances		D13
Perth Waltz, the (Sheguindah Waltz)	D	Waltz	101	SSF_Dances		D41, D78
Peter's Peerie Boat	D	Jig	3	SSF_Dances		D1,D12
Possum up a Gum Stump	G	Reel	45	SSF_Dances		D14
Posties Jig	D	Jig	79	SSF_Dances		D31
Puin Bracken	Am	Reel	60	SSF_Dances		D21
Punter's Graveyard	Bm	Reel	134	SSF_Dances		D53
Reel of the Royal Scots	D	Reel	130	SSF_Dances		D52
Road to the Isles	D	Strathspey	21	SSF_Dances		D6
Roaring Jelly	D	Jig	1	SSF_Dances		D1,D49
Rose Tree	D	Reel	74	SSF_Dances		D29
Sailor, the	G	Reel	5	SSF_Dances		D2
Sailor's Wife, the	Dm	Jig	42	SSF_Dances		D13,D22,D26,D38
Sally There's a Bug On Me	D	Reel	118	SSF_Dances		D48
Saltire Society Reel	D	Reel	39	SSF_Dances		D11,D29,D37,D79
Sanona	D	Strathspey	93	SSF_Dances		D36,D68
Scotland the Brave	G	Reel	71	SSF_Dances		D28
Scottish Ramble	A	Strathspey	129	SSF_Dances		D51
Seton's Ceilidh Band	A	Jig	113	SSF_Dances		D46
Shetland Two Step	A	Jig	81	SSF_Dances		D31
Smith's a Gallant Fireman	D	Strathspey	28	SSF_Dances		D8,D39,D51
Soldier's Joy	D	Reel	33	SSF_Dances		D9,D27,D67
Spanish Ladies	D	Reel	62	SSF_Dances		D21
Spin & Glow	G	Jig	115	SSF_Dances		D47
Spootiskerry	G	Reel	54	SSF_Dances		D18,D45
Staten Island	D	Reel	8	SSF_Dances		D2,D9,D34,D80
Stool of Repentance	A	Jig	26	SSF_Dances		D7,D38
Struan Robertson's Rant	Em	Strathspey	35	SSF_Dances		D10
Sylph, the	G	Reel	38	SSF_Dances		D11,D37,D79
Tams Hunting Horn	D	Jig	23	SSF_Dances		D7
Teddybear's Picnic, the	Em	Song	104	SSF_Dances		D43
The Ton	A	Reel	131	SSF_Dances		D52
Tin Gee Gee	D	Reel	120	SSF_Dances		D48
Traditional Cape Breton Jig	G	Jig	85	SSF_Dances		D33
Viscount Reidhaven	F	Reel	48	SSF_Dances		D16
West Kirkton	F	Jig	84	SSF_Dances		D33
White Cockade, the	G	Reel	70	SSF_Dances		D27
White Heather Jig	G	Jig	64	SSF_Dances		D23
Willie Wilson of Beith	D	Jig	82	SSF_Dances		D32

Sydney Scottish Fiddlers - Dance Sets

Set #	Dance	Type	Tunes
1	Roaring Jelly	Jig	Roaring Jelly, the Ferry, Peter's Peerie Boat, Drummond Castle
2	The Sailor	Reel	The Sailor, Lochmaben Hornpipe, Hurlock's Reel, Staten Island
3	Sugar Candie	Strathspey	Earl of Angus and Arran, North of the Grampians, Captain Campbell, Kirrie Kebbuch
4	Cadgers in the Canongate	Reel	Gillian's Reel, Corn Rigs, Mrs Mcleod, Miss Gayton
5	Joie de Vivre	Jig	Anderson's Jig, Muckin O' Geordie's Byre, Craighall, Middlin' Thank You
6	Butterscotch and Honey	Strahtspey	Road to the Isles, Bonnie Lass o' Bon Accord
7	Hunting Horn	Jig	Tam's Hunting Horn, Bung Your Eye, Fiddlers Whim, Stool of Repentance
8	Mrs Hamilton of Wishaw	Strathspey	Mrs Hamilton, Smith's a Gallant Fireman, Laird of Drumblair, Cropie's Strathspey
9	32some Reel	Reel	Devil Amang the Tailors, Far Frae Hame, Soldier's Joy, Mason' Apron, Staten Island
10	Robertson's Rant	Strathspey	Struan Robertson's Rant, Cropie's Strathspey
11	Maxwell's Rant	Reel	Maxwell' Rant, Miss Murray of Lintrose, The Sylph, Saltire Society Reel
12	Machine Without Horses	Jig	Machine Without Horses, Bung Your Eye, Craighall, Peter's Peerie Boat
13	Ladies Fancy	Jig	Peggie's Wedding, Drummond Castle, The Sailor's Wife
14	Montgomerie's Rant	Reel	High Road to Linton, Durham Rangers, possum Up a Gum Stump, Miss Susan Cooper
15	Just As I was in the Morning	Jig	The Deuks O'er My Daddie, The Ferry, Middlin' Thank You
16	Peggy Dewar	Reel	Viscount Reidhaven, Flowers of Edinburgh, Barrowburn Reel, Corn Rigs
17	Garry Strathspey	Strathspey	Garry Strathspey
18	Australian Ladies	Reel	Australian Ladies, Macpherson's Blade, Durham Rangers, Spootiskerry
19	Kelloholm Jig	Jig	Kelloholm Jig, The Hundred Pipers, Drummond Castle, Cock O' the North
20	Rose of the North	Strathspey	Kirrie Kebbuch, Davie Taylor, Cortes Gardens, Captain Campbell
21	Mairi's Wedding	Reel	Mairi's Wedding, Puin Bracken, Aitken Drum, Spanish Ladies
22	Jubilee Jig	Jig	Miss Gordon Of Liverpool, The Sailor's Wife, Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre, Middlin Thank You
23	White Heather Jig	Jig	White Heather Jig
24	The Meeting of the Waters	March	The Meeting of the Waters, Grand Slam, Battle of Waterloo, Liberton Pipe Band
25	Barley Brae	Jig	Barley Cakes, Bung Your Eye, Craighall
26	Waverley	Jig	The Ferry, The Sailor's Wife, Drummond Castle
27	Soldier's Joy	Reel	Soldier's Joy, The White Cockade, Hurlock's Reel
28	Gay Gordons	Couple Dance	Scotland the Brave, The Hundred Pipers, Cock O' the North
29	Trip to Bavaria	Reel	The Fisherman, Saltire Society Reel, The Rose Tree
30	Reel of the 51st	Reel	The Drunken Piper, 72nd Highlander's Farewell to Edinburgh, Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle, Macpherson's Blade, Lord Randell's Blade
31	Posties Jig	Jig	Posties Jig, Dr Finlay, Shetland TwoStep
32	The Immigrant Lass	Jig	Willie Wilson of Beith, Greenholm, Bung Your Eye
33	Ian Powrie's Farewell to Auchterarder	Jig	West Kirkton, Traditional Cape Breton Jig, Newton Park
34	Round Reel of Eight	Reel	Far Frae Hame, Staten Island
35	The Dashing White Sargeant	Reel	Dashing White Sargeant, Miss Murray of Lintrose, The Old Grey Cat
36	Sean Truibhas' Willichan	Strathspey	My Dearie, Minstrel Boy, The Hills of Lorne, Flowers of Quern, Sanona, Music o' Spey
37	Miss Murray of Lintrose	Reel	Miss Murray of Lintrose, The Sylph, Saltire Society Reel, Aitken Drum
38	The Last of the Lairds	Jig	Stool of Repentance, Charlie Hunter, The Sailor's Wife, Doc Boyd's Jig
39	My Only Jo & Dearie O!	Strathspey	Miss Jean Stewart, Captain Campbell, Davie Taylor, Smith's a Gallant Fireman
40	Circassian Circle	Jig	Irish Washerwoman, Jump at the Sun, Charlie Hunter
41	Waltz Country Dance	Waltz	Blue Water Waltz, The Perth Waltz, Margaret Anne Robertson
42	Never on Sunday	Air	Never on Sunday
43	Evening Three Step	Strathspey	The Teddybear's Picnic
44	Monymusk	Reel	Castles in the Air, Haughs of Cromdale, Green Grow the Rushes O, Kinloss
45	General Stuart's Reel	Air	General Stuart's Reel, Miss Brady, Angus Campbell, Blair Atholle
46	Seton's Ceilidh Band	Jig	Seton's Ceilidh Band
47	Pelorus Jack	Jig	Christian Catto, Spin and Glow, Jump at the Sun, Courtesan's Jig
48	American Contra	Reel	Four and Twenty, Sally Theres's a Bug on me, Jordan, Tin Gee Gee, Fine Times, Grafton Sawyer
49	The Happy Meeting	Jig	Greenholm, Roaring Jelly, Campbell's Frolic, Off She Goes
50	Muirland Willie	Jig	Muirland Willie, Kenmure's On and Awa', Muckin' 'O Geordie's Byre, Haddington Assembly
51	The Braes of Breadalbane	Strathspey	The Braes of Breadalbane, Haughs of Cromdale, Scottish Ramble, Smith's a Gallant Fireman
52	Reel of the Royal Scots	Reel	Reel of the Royal Scots, Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle, 72nd Highlander's farewell to Edinburgh, The Ton
53	Miss Clementina Stewarts Reel	Reel	Miss Clementina Stewart, Blair Atholle, The Cairin' O't, The Punter's Graveyard
54	Come to the Ceilidh	Reel	Liberton Pipe Band, The Grand Slam, The Barren Rocks of Aden
55	The Music Makars	Reel	At the Fair, Corn Rigs, Miss Murray of Lintrose
56	Anna Holden's Strathspey	Strathspey	60th Summer Assembly, North of the Grampians, Green Grow the Rushes O',Kinloss
57	De'il Amang the Tailors	Reel	De'il Amang the Tailors, Corn Rigs,Staten Island
58	Duke of Perth	Reel	Duke of Perth's Reel, Lord Randall's Blade, Saltire Society Reel
59	Duke of Atholl's Reel	Jig	Atholle Highlanders
60	Strip the Willow	Jig	Foxhunter's Jig, Another Jig Will Do, Rattlin' Roarin' Willie, Rocky Road to Dublin
61	The Dhoon	Jig	Creag Mhor, Fiddler's Whim, Jump at the Sun,Spin and Glow
62	Barn Dance		Mudgee Schottische, Drover's Dream Click Go the Shears, the German
63	Haymaker's Jig	Jig	Haymaker's Jig, Kenmure's Awa', the Ferry, Roaring Jelly
64	Waltzes	Waltz	Margaret's Waltz, Souris Waltz, Waltz of the Little Girls,
65	Chicken Dance (yeh Reel Scots!)		Chicken Dance
66	Cherry Bank Gardens	Strathspey	The Cradle Song, The Duchess Tree
67	Black Mountain Reel	Reel	BarrowBurn, Soldiers Joy, Flowers of Edinburgh
68	Miss Gibson's Strathspey	Strathspey	Music O' Spey, Hills of Lorne, Sanona, Flowers of Quern
69	Blue Bonnets	Jig	Blue Bonnets, Christian Cattol
70	Balmoral Strathspey	Strathspey	Balmoral, John McAlpine, Captain Campbell, Haughs of Cromdale
71	Shiftin' Bobbins	Reel	Caddam Woods, 72nd Highlanders Farewell to Edinburgh
72	Clansmen	Reel	Hon Capt. Elliot's Quickstep, Persian Dance, Lass O' Gowrie, Caledonian
73	Chequered Court	Jig	Lady Charlotte Murray, Bung Your Eye, Fiddler's Whim, Craighall
74	Summer on the Clyde	Strathspey	Loch Lomond, Annie Laurie, Will Ye No Come Back
75	Silver Tassie	Strathspey	Lady Charlotte Campbell, Banks of Loch Ness, Cropie's Strathspey, North o the Grampians
76	Blooms of Bon Accord	Reel	Cocker's Roses, Aiten Drum, Jamie Allen
77	Gentleman	Strathspey	Ceilidh Umbrella, Biln' amie, Davie Taylor, Duchess of Gordon
78	Circle Waltz	Waltz	Blue Water Waltz, Sheguindah Waltz, Margaret Anne Robertson
79	Knockendarroch	Reel	Corn Rigs, Miss Murray of Lintrose, the lph, Saltire Society Reel
80	Flowers of Edinburgh		Flowers of Edinburgh, Staten Island, Hurlocks Reel, da Rodd to Houll
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last updated Sunday, 9th February 2003