Set List

Updated 5/15

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Welcome March        (5/15)

  • Fiddler’s Welcome

    • Audio

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 62

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Enter together.

      • B part, 2nd time: Start quite quietly alltogether now (P). Grow to forte by the last 4 measures.

      • C part: fortissimo (FF)

      • C part, 2nd time: Gradually shrink to piano (P) by last 4 measures.

      • D part: Back to forte.

Jig Set 1        (4/30)

  • Audio

  • Bert Gonnella’s Jig

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 110

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Piano for 2 measures.

      • B part: Follow the melodic line with great contrast (rising from quiet to very loud every time you have a low-to-high figure).

  • Myra’s Jig

    • Video

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 110

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: All forte (F).

      • Second play through:

        • A part: Piano (P).

        • B part: Forte (F).

      • Ending: End sharply.

  • Snug in a Blanket

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 110

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: Mezzo piano (MP) excitingly soft! Chord instruments play all their chords over A, if they can.

      • Second play through: Forte (F). Use Keith’s harmony.

      • Ending: End together.

Air        (5/8)

  • Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his 2nd Wife

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 30

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Starting together

      • Entire Tune: Just follow the melodic line (I trust you).

Strathspey Set        (5/15)

  • Devil in the kitchen

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = ?

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: chord drone on A, for 2 measures.

      • A part: Fiddle solo and chords.

      • B part: everyone in.

  • Lady Madelina Sinclair

    • Audio

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 105

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Somewhat loud, with jubilance.

  • Maybelle’s Compliments

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 105

      • Play times: 1

      • A part: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • B part, first line: Mezzo forte (MF) still.

      • B part, second line: Shrink down to piano (P), don’t lose the energy.

  • Matty’s Appeal

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 108

      • Play times: 1

      • A part: start piano (P), holding energy from the end of Maybelle’s. Gradually grow into B part.

      • B part: forte (F)! Ignore the repeat sign!

      • Ending: End on a slightly lengthened note. (if it helps you to think in music notation, make the quarter a half note to put the measure at its full length)

Ships Set        (5/8)

  • Audio

  • Da Full Rigged Ship

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 70

      • Play times: 1

      • A part, first time: Fiddle solo (no chords).

      • A part, second time: All fiddles in.

      • B part: All fiddles continue.

      • C part: gentle piano drone enters.

      • Ending: Hold last note.

  • Da New Rigged Ship

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 90

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Deb will set tempo!

      • Entire tune: Forte all the way through!

      • Ending: Hold last note (Annie will cut you off).

Waltz Set        (4/30)

  • Anna

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 109

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: 3 measures on piano (last 3 of piece).

      • Entire tune: Mezzo piano all through.

  • Belle Mere’s Waltz

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 109

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire song: Mezzo forte throughout, except for…

      • Third line: Forte (F).

      • Fourth line: Piano (P), starting on the pickup, as if an echo.

      • Fifth line: Return to mezzo forte.

      • Ending: SLOW DOWN starting 7 measures from end (I will conduct you), hold chord until cut of.

March & Reels Set        (5/15)

  • The Duke of Fife’s Welcome to Deeside

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 74

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Start together

      • Entire tune: Forte all the way.

  • Robertson’s

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 85

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Deb will start / set tempo!

      • First play through: Mezzo piano (MP). This is important as it will mark the gradual tempo rise from solo.

      • Second play through: Start mezzo forte (MF) and grow to forte (F).

  • Gillan’s Reel

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 85 (speeds up from there)

      • Play times: 2

      • Entire tune: Fortissimo (FF) all the way!

      • Ending: Don’t play the eighth note, but Annie will conduct you on an extra chord/A note.

Slow March        (5/15)

  • Highland Cathedral

    • Audio

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 61

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Drone for two meaures. Add bodhran for two measures. Total of 4 measures for intro.

      • A part, first time: Winds only on melody.

      • Rest of tune: Feel the melody, you know what to do.

      • Ending: I will cut you off at end.

Pipe Polka        (5/8)

  • The Royal Scots Polka

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 83

      • Play times: 1

      • A part: Accordions & winds only, no chord instruments.

      • B part: everyone joins in at forte (F).

      • C part: suddenly piano (P).

      • D part: Back to forte (F).

      • Wrap up: ONLY PLAY ABCD, NO EXTRA A PART!

      • Ending: Accordions only, play a D chord (Annie will conduct you).

Air, Hornpipe, Reel Set        (5/8)

  • Memories of Skye

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 110

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: On piano.

      • A part, first time: Mezzo piano (MP).

      • A part, second time: Harmony part should enter here.

      • B part, first time: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • B part, second time: Mezzo piano (MP).

      • Ending: Hold the last note and I will conduct the transition into….

  • Bonnie Isabel Robertson

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 134

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Mezzo forte (MF), sweetly, follow the melodic line.

      • Ending: STRAIGHT into…

  • The Thrums Cairn

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 75

      • Play times: 1

      • First play through: All the way through as written.

      • Second play through, A part: Only fiddles on melody.

      • Second play through, B part: Everyone joins in again.

      • Ending: abrupt final note.

Jig Set 2        (5/15)

  • Sister Jean

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 93

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Drone on open D for 4 measures; Annie will conduct the melody in.

        Entire tune: A little quiet and mysterious (P).

  • Doc Boyd’s Jig

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 101

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Immediate rise in mood and energy, but not too loud (MP).

  • The Road to Banff

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = 101

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: mezzo forte (MF).

      • Second play through: mezzo piano (MP).

  • The Famous Baravan

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = ?

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • Second play through: A part is mezzo piano, B part is mezzo forte.

      • Ending: Extra D at end (I will cut you off).

Song        (5/8)

  • As Kip desires

Reels Set 2        (5/8)

  • The Hills of Kaitoke

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 57

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Chord groove.

      • A part, first time: Fiddles are only melody instrument.

      • A part, second time: Fiddles and accordions are only melody instruments.

      • B part, first time: Fiddles and wind are only melody instruments.

      • B part, second time: Everyone is in.

      • C part: Fiddles are only melody instruments until part repeats in higher octave, at which point winds should join in.

      • B part, third and fourth time: Everyone is in.

  • The Farley Bridge

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 57

      • Play times: 2

      • A part, first time: Solo fiddle and chords.

      • A part, second time: Add all fiddles.

      • B part: Everyone in.

      • Second play through: Everyone plays all the way through, very expressively.

  • The Road to Eerrogie

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 82

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: Everyone just go nuts.
        Second play through:

        • A part, first time: Winds only on melody, quietly.

        • A part, second time: Fiddles only on melody, a little louder.

        • B part: Everyone go nuts again!

        • Ending: Extra last low A by instruments with a lower range.

MSR Set In A        (5/8)

  • Mary Ann MacDougal’s March

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 108

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: A drone for 2 measures, Annie conduct melody in.

      • Entire tune: All forte (F).

  • John McAlpine

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 109

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: ONLY fiddles will have melody.

      • Second play through: Everyone in.

  • Hurlock’s Reel

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 81

      • Play times: 2

      • A part, first time: Piano (P) (I’m thinking we have only some melody players from each section play—we’ll try this at rehearsal).

      • Rest of tune: Forte (F).

      • Ending: End together.

Marching Air        (5/8)

  • The Bonnie Lass of Headlake

    • Audio

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 96

      • Play times: 1

      • Optional tune: If we are running long, I will cut this.

      • Intro: Start together.

      • Entire tune: Just follow the melody line, you’ve got this.

      • Ending: Annie will conduct the fermata & cut off the final note.

Reel Set 3        (4/30)

  • The Brumley Brae

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 78

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Start together.

      • A part: Mezzo piano (MP).

      • B part: Forte (F).

  • Fisher’s Hornpipe

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 82

      • Play times: 2

      • (so basically you’ll grow a notch in volume every time there’s a new part!)

      • First play through:

        • A part: Mezzo piano (MP).

        • B part: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • Second play through:

        • A part: Mezzo forte (MF).

        • B part: Forte (F).

      • (so basically you’ll grow a notch in volume every time there’s a new part!

  • Walker Street

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 81

      • Play times: 2

      • A part: forte (F)

      • B part: fortissimo (FF)

      • Ending: Extra G note to end.

Minor MSR Set        (5/8)

  • Audio

  • Hughie and Janet’s March

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 59

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Piano gives intro on an E chord.

      • Entire tune: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • A part: Fiddles + chords.

      • B part: Everyone in.

  • The Warlocks

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 117

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • A part: Accordions + chords.

      • B part: Everyone in.

  • The Nine Pint Coggie

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 77

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Forte (F).

  • Knockdhu

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 81

      • Play times: 2

      • First play through: All forte (F).

      • Second play through:

        • A part: Mezzo piano (MP).

        • B part: Fortissimo (F).

      • Ending: A/Am chord (Annie will cut you off).

Pipe Marches Set        (5/8)

  • Peat Fire Flame

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 96

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Enter together.

      • A part: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • B part: Mezzo piano (MP).

  • Greenwood Side

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 71

      • Play times: 1

      • A part, first time: Just woodwinds & chords.

      • A part, second time: Add everyone, not too loud.

      • B part: Keep going.

  • Highland Laddie

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 74

      • Play times: 1

      • A part: Mezzo forte (MF).

      • B part: Forte (F).

  • Campbell’s Farewell to Redcastle

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = 78

      • Play times: 1

      • A part: fortissimo (FF)!!

      • B part: Start mezzo piano (MP), rise in volume to fortissimo (FF)!! Again by the last line.

      • Ending: Hold out 1 last A or A chord (I will cut you off).

Finale Set        (5/30)

  • Coilsfield House

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = ?

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Gentle accordion G chords or drones.

      • A part: Mezzo piano (MP).

      • B part: Mezzo forte (MF).

  • New Claret

    • Notes:

      • ♩. = ?

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: Overall mezzo piano (MP), but excitingly!!

      • A part: Winds & chords play.

      • B part: Everyone joins in.

      • C part: Everyone continues.

  • Edward Jay’s Jaunt

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = ?

      • Play times: 1

      • Intro: Will open with solo. We’ll talk about this ahead of the concert.

      • Entire tune: Mezzo forte (MF) through EXCEPT FOR…

      • Second play through, B part: Suddenly quiet (should be a surprise!) and then gradually grow up to forte by the end of the tune.

  • Evelyn M.E. Murray of Cambridge, MA

    • Notes:

      • 𝅗𝅥 = ?

      • Play times: 1

      • A part, first time: JUST FIDDLES on melody (all harmony in) playing at a good fiddle forte (F).

      • Rest of tune: Everyone in, playing forte again, but with high contrast.

  • Northlands Polkett

    • Audio

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = 111

      • Play times: 1

      • Entire tune: just go nuts EXCEPT FOR…

      • B part & C part: On 2nd lines of of B and C part, play quietly (as if an echo).

      • Ending: End big chord!

Encore        (4/30)

  • Scotland the Brave

    • Notes:

      • ♩ = ?

      • Play times: 2

      • Intro: Piano will start.

      • First play through: A stately tempo.

      • Second play through: Tempo will pick up.