A Complete Transcription of James Aird’s
A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs adopted to the Fife, Violin, or German-Flute’ vol. 1 & 2 (1782)
This book includes the 394 tunes in Aird’s first two volumes for Fife.
All tunes are written in clean, modern notation. They are listed in alphabetical order, cited to note the volume and number in Aird.
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Table of Contents
10th of June
14th of October
21st of August, or Weavers March
Aire de l’Opera Francoise
Albina
Aldridge’s Allemande
Aldridges Dance
ale Wife and her Barrel
Allemande
Amorous Goddess
An ye had been where I ha’e been
And will you be
Andrew and his Cutty Gun
Auld Man ill ne’er die
Auld Man’s Mare’s dead
Bab at the Bouster
Barring of Door
Batchelors of every Station
Bath Medley
Because he was a Bonny Lad
Behind the Bush in the Garden
Bessy Bell and Marry Gray
Big Bowwow
Black Dance
Black Jock
Blow Zabella
Bonny Breast Notes
Bonny Charlie
Bonny Lass of Livingston
Bonny Lass to marry me
Bonton
Borlum’s Reel
Bottom of Punch Bowl
Boyne Water
Braes of Angus
Braes of Aughtertyre
Braes of Balwhedar
Brothers
Bucket
Buffoon Dance
Bung your Eye
Butter’d Pease
Button Hole
Cacina
Calimbe
Cambell’s Allemand
Cameronian’s Rant
Campbell’s are coming
Captain Cambel of Aird’s QS
Captain Ross’s Reel
Capuchin
Carle he came o’er Craft
Carlen is your Daughter Ready
Charles Street Bank
Chester Castle
Chorus Jig
Colonel Archbald Campbells QS
Come ashore Jolly Tar & your Trousers on
Come hap me with thy Petticoat
Cordwainer’s March
Corporal
Cotillon
Cotillon
Cotillon
Cottillon
Cow behind Haycock
Cream Pot
Cupid’s Recruiting Serjeant
Dainty Besom Maker
Dainty Davie
Dance in Queen Mab
Doctor
Donald Couper and his man
Double Kisses
Drops of Drink
Drub the Rogues
Drummer
Drunken Drummer
Dublin Volunteers Quick March
Ducks dang o’ver my Dadie
Duke of Gloucester’s Quick March
Duke of Perth’s Reel
Dumb Glutton
Duncan Gray
Duncan’s Dance
East Nook of Fife
Eppie McNabb
faithful Shepherd
Farewell
Favourite Highland QS 73rd Regiment
Favourite Strathspey
Feathers
Female Hero
Female Rake
Flight
For a’that and a’that
Free Mason’s March
French Taptoo
Friend in Need
Fy let us a’ to the Bridal
Fyket
Gallway Girls
Gardener’s March
General Carleton’s Quick March
Gentle Ann (Welcome Here Again)
German Quick March
Giga
Good Night and Joy be wi’ you all
Good Thing
Grace’s Farewell
Grand Parade
Green Sleeves
Had the Lass till I win at her
Hammermen’s March, or Tinkers Occupation
Happy Clown
Hay Makers
Hemp Dressers
high way to Dublin
High Way to Dublin
Highland Laddie
Highlandman Kiss’d his Mother
Hopeton House
Humours of Graignamanoch
I wish I may die if I do
I wish you a merry new Year
I’d rather have a piece than a Kiss of my Jo
I’ll Touzle your Kurchy
Inverness Scots Measure
Irish Billy
Irish Hautboy
Irish Lasses
Irish Lilt
Irish Trott
I’y gar Rub o’er wi’ Straw
Jackson’s Dream
Jackson’s Morning Brush
Jenny Nettles
Jockey to the Fair
John Anderson my Jo, for the violin or fife
Johnie’s Grey Breeks
Johnny Cope
Johnny Macgill
Jollity
Joseph’s Frolick
Jubilee
Just as I was in the morning
Killworth Volunteer Quick March
Killycrankie
Kiss me fast my mothers coming
Kiss me Sweetly
La Bissette
La Counterfaitte
La Damoselle
La Nouvelle Angloise
La Polonese
La Promenade QS
La Rochelle
La Rosalia
Lads of Dunse
Lads of Village
Lady Charlote’s Delight
Lady Harriot Hope’s Reel
Lady’s plaything, or General Howe’s March
Lango Lee
Lango Lee New Way
Lary Grogan
Lass gin ye loe me tell me now
Lass if I come near you
Lasses of Dunse
Lasses of Melross
Lassie wi the Yellow Coatie
Lather awa’ wi your Oak Stick
Le Fette De Village
Lee Rigg
Lesslie’s March
Lillie
Linky Lanky
Linnen Hall
Little House under the Hill
Little Skirmish
Loch Ness
Long Room of Scarbrough
Lord Glencairn’s QS
Lord Kelly’s Reel
Love and Opportunity
Lovely Lass to Friar came
Lovely Mally
Maggy Lawder
Maggy’s Wame is fu I true
Major
Major James Campbell’s QS
Major John Bruce’s QS
Major Montgomerie’s QS
Major’s Maggot
March de Generals d’Armes
Marche Françoise
Marias Frolick
Marionets
Marquis of Granby Shambuy
Marquis of Granby’s delight
Marquis of Huntleys Reel
Matthew Briggs
Mc Crae’s Fancy
McDonalds QS
Merry Dancers
Merry Girls of York
Merry Meeting
merry Plowman
Milk Maid
Millers Daughter
Millers Rant
Miners of Wicklow
Miss Gunning’s Delight
Miss Jamieson’s Jig
Miss Katie Hall’s Reel
Miss Ramsay’s Reel
Miss Sackvile’s Fancy
Moar Nein I Giberlan
Moon and Seven Stars
Mount your Baggage
My Dearie an thou die
My Lodging is on the Cold Ground
My Love She’s But a Lassie yet
My Mother’s ay Glowering o’ver me
My Peggy is a Young thing
My Wife’s a Wanton wee thing
Nancy Dawson
Neapolitan Threshers
New York Girls
Norickystie or the Wild Irish Man
Notingham Castle
Notthingham Races
O gin ye were dead Gudeman
O La my Dear
O’er the Muir to Maggy
O’ver the Hills and far awa
Oak Stick
Oak Stick
Old Plantation Girls
On dit qui a quinze ans
Over the Water to Charlie
Oyster Wife’s Rant
Pady Whack
Pady’s Resource
Pantheon
Parlalaw, a German Tune
Parson in his Boots
Parson in Suds
Parting Kiss
Peacock
Pease upon a Trencher
Peep of Day
Polygon
Pompey ran away
Poor a purse but routh o’ Credit
Port Patrick
Prince Ferdinands QS
Push about the Jorum
Quick March 1st Battalion Royals
Quick March 2nd Battalion of Royals
QS 2nd Battalion Royals
QS 2nd Battalion Royals, 2nd
QS 2nd Regiment
QS 4th Regiment
Quick March 8th Regiment
QS 10th Regiment
Quick March 10th Regiment, 2nd
QS 12th Regiment
QS 13th Regiment
QS 15th Regiment
QS 15th Regiment, 2nd
Quick March 15th Regiment, 3rd
QS 17th Regiment
Quick March 19th Regiment
QS 21st Regiment
QS 22nd Regiment (Trim the Velvet)
QS 23rd Regiment
QS 25th Regiment
QS 25th Regiment
QS 26th Regiment
QS 30th Regiment
QS 30th Regiment, 2nd
QS 32nd Regiment
QS 33rd Regiment
QS 37th Regiment
QS 40th Regiment
QS 42nd Regiment
QS 42nd Regiment, 2nd
QS 43rd Regiment
QS 44th Regiment
QS 45th Regiment
Quick March 48th Regiment (Wilke’s Release)
QS 55th Regiment
QS 71st Regiment
QS Fusileers
QS General Burgoynes
QS Old Buffs
QS South Fencibles
QS the Troopers
QS West Fencibles
Queen of Hearts
Queensberry House
Quick March by Mr. Handel
Quick March East York Militia
Quick March Scots Royals
Quick Step Fencibles
Rakes of Mallo
Ranger’s Frolick
Ranting Highlandman
Ranting Roaring Highlandman
Recruiting Officer
Roast Beef
Rob Down
Rock & wi Pickle Tow
Rosette QS
Ross Castle
Royal Glasgow Volunteer’s Jig
Royal Glasgow Volunteers Farewell
Ruffians Rant
Rural Felicity
Sae brawly as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
Sailor Laddie
Sailor’s Rant
Sam Jones
Sandy o’ver the Lee
Savage Dance with variations
Saw ye Johnny Coming co she
Shammie Breeches
Shantruish
Shilling O’Gairey
Shurleys fancy
Sir Alexander McDonald’s Reel
Sir John Malcolm
Siugue
Soldier’s Joy
Sows Tail to Geordie
Spa
Spanish Jigg
Spanish March
Spinning Wheel
St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning
Staten Island Hornpipe
Steer her up and had her gaan
Steward’s Lodge Song
Stumpie
Sukey Bids me
Sussie
Sutors of Selkirk
Sweet Mally
Sweet Willy O.
Sweetest Lassie
Symon Brodie
Tadie’s Wattle
Tail Toddle
Taylor’s March
There’s naw luck about the house
This is not my Ain House
three Sheep Skins
Thro’ the Lang Muir
Tit for Tat
To danton me
To the Weaver gin ye go
Tom Tullus’s Hornpipe
Trip to Clumber
Trip to Sligo
Tristram Shandy
Trumpet Air
Tullock Gorm
Turk’s March, 1st
Turk’s March, 2nd
Turkish March
Turkish QS
Unanimity
Up wit Ailly now
Warkworth Castle
Weazle
Well a go to Kelso
Well done Jock
Well gang nae mair to yon Town
When I follow’d a Lass
When she came ben she bobed
Where will our Goodman lye
Whigs of Fife
Whipman Laddie
White Jock
Why should I not like my Love
Widow’s Rant
Wilkes’s Wrigle
Willie was a Wanton Wag
Wonder
Woo’d and Married and a’
Wood Nunrich Fair
Wrights Rant
Yanky Doodle
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