Over the coming months (edit: and years!) I’m going to attempt to transcribe, record and post many of the tunes that I have composed. I started writing tunes pretty early in my traditional music ‘career’. I was travelling around a fair bit and didn’t have access to recordings or notation so I just made tunes up. I’ll try and post them in chronological order but I don’t remember all the dates of composition so will have to guess some.
First up is Ruaraidh’s Hornpipe. (This wasn’t the first tune i wrote however. I think that would have been Cara Douglas of Waterloo, written for the birth of Craig Douglas and Madeline Crawford’s first child. Unfortunately I have forgotten it and can find no written version of it.)
Below are links to the tune (click to view or alt+click to download).
ABC File – PDF File
Playable notation is below.
This tune was written (in 1994 i think) for the birth of Stewart and Emma Mitchell’s boy, Ruaraidh. I had been listening to a fair amount of Northumbrian music at the time and liked the swing of their hornpipes and I seem to have written a few hornpipes around that time.
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