Jock Duncan : the man and his songs : traditional songs & bothy ballads from the repertoire of Jock Duncan of Fyvie and Pitlochry / compiled and edited by Peter Shepheard.

Shepheard, Peter, editor

Perth : Rymour Books, 2024.

xvii, 208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm.

Song index - - Acknowledgements - - Foreword: where it all started - - Map of North East Scotland - - Glossary of Scots words - - Jock Duncan - the man and his songs - - Jock Duncan - his biography - - Life at Gelliebrae & Faddenhill - - Mirk the dog - - The mill and the dam - - Mary Taggart - kitchie deem - - The peat moss & the spring of the water spiders - - Breed and oatcakes - - Sids and sowens - - The hay - - The hairst - - The steam mulls - - Jimmy Cardno - Northies Millbrex - - The sheep and the storm of '41 - - Netherton of Millbrex - - Kebbick cheese - - The neeps - - Wullie Allen - Tifty Croft - - Geordie Hay - orra loon - - Bill Ctaighead - dancing master - - Betty - the shult - - Journey to New Deer - - Gight Castle & Thomas the Rhymer - - Bruckleseat - - Derick Strachan - Bruckleseat - - Balladeers past & present - - Jock Duncan - the music of the songs - - The songs: from Aikey Brae to Ythanside - - Notes on the songs - - Bibliography - - Index of titles and first lines - - Recordings.

This book is a collection of songs transcribed from the singing of Jock Duncan (1925-2021) a revered singer of songs from North-East of Scotland. The collection is published with the permission of the surviving members of his family. It includes not only the words of the songs but also the tunes, notated and transcribed by the editor, with detailed notes on the songs together with a biography of the man himself.

9781739480172 (hbk)

782.420941
X1 DUN

English

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