16 easy pieces from the Scottish Baroque
score and parts - +CD - violin (flute, oboe) and piano; cello (bassoon) ad lib.

A collection of attractive pieces for flexible ensemble with keyboard accompaniment for use in the home, in schools and music centres. Ideal for informal music-making, student and professional performance.

CD with listening and play-along tracks, performed by outstanding musicians: Bonnie Rideout (fiddle), Jadwiga Kotnowska (flute), Kevin McCrae (cello) and Jeremy Barlow (harpsichord).

Number of pages: 44

- Meet Scotland's 18th-century composers!
- Classical pieces influenced by folk, and vice versa
- Dance tunes celebrating new bridges in Scotland (1769-1809)
- Scottisch love songs
- First modern edition of James Oswald's 'Thistle' sonata
- Two pieces by Stamitz's Scottish pupil the Earl of Kelly
- Creative use of 1st position on the violin
- Also suitable for flute and oboe
- Simple, effective accompaniments
- Newly researched, authentic texts

Contents
- Gigue (John Clerk of Penicuik)
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- Four Scots songs:
- The blathrie o't
- The yellow-hair'd laddie
- Low down in the broom
- Hey Jenny, come down to Jock
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- Five tunes celebrating new bridges:
- The New Bridge of Edinburgh
- The South Bridge of Edinburgh
- The Bridge of Perth (Daniel Dow)
- The New Bridge of Ballater (Robert Petrie)
- The New Bridge of Rutherglen
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- Marches:
- Count Sax's March (William McGibbon)
- March for the 22nd Regiment (General Reid)
- Largo (Earl of Kelly)
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- Minuets:
- Mrs. Ker's Minuet (Earl of Kelly)
- Minuet in A, with variations (William McGibbon)
- Sonata in G, "The Thistle" (James Oswald)
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- About the composers
- Notes on the music
- About the performers
- CD track list