Answers to Scottish Quiz 4.
1. Strathspey and reel.
2. The classical form of bagpipe music.
3. A famous fiddler who composed and collected hundreds of dance tunes.
4. A small Celtic harp.
5. Two Highland broadswords or a sword and its scabbard crossed. This is the Highland Sword Dance.
6. The mouth music tunes of the Highlands, often used for dancing when no instrumentalist is available.
7. Pas de Basque.
8. A folk song, so called from its being sung in the bothy (cottage) rather than in the concert hall.
9. Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony.
10. The melody pipe on which the tune is fingered in playing bagpipes.
11. Scottish Gaelic minstrelsy, both musical and literary.
12. The Great Highland Bagpipe.
13. Collecting Scottish folk songs, especially those of the Hebrides.
14 The famous Glasgow choir.
15. The famous psalm tune most commonly used with Psalm 23 (metrical version), ‘The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want.’
16. The spirit of a person who died was reputed to travel home beneath the earth.
17. William Douglas of Fingland who married Elizabeth Clerk of Glenboig while Annie, daughter of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, married Alexander Fergusson of Craigdarroch.
18. The Wee Cooper o’ Fife.
19. A Highland musical gathering at which the participants pass the evening with informal contributions.
20 Fair Kirconnel lea.
21. A Highland funeral dirge.
22. ‘Scots Wha Hae’
23. In music, a short note on the beat with a long one occupying the rest of the beat; it gives a peculiarly Scottish lilt.
24. ‘We’re no awa’ tae bide awa’’
25. A process of fulling (thicken ing) cloth. Many folk songs were composed to accompany this process.
26. Loch Lomond.
27. Scottish National Orchestra.
28. ‘Miracle in the Gorbals’
29. Edinburgh concert hall.
30. Sir Harry Lauder.
31 A Jock o’
Hazledean, B
Annie Laurie, C Bonnie Dundee, D Auld Lang Syne, E There’s Nae Luck aboot
the Hoose, F Lochaber no more,
G Blue Bonnets over the Border, H The Skye Boat Song, I Will Ye No Come Back
Again, J Doun the Burn, Davie Lad, K
The Flowers o’ the Forest,
L The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray, M Comin’ through the Rye.