• The Caledonian Companion
  A Collection of Scottish Fiddle Music and Guide to its Performance
  Alastair J. Hardie
  Introduction and 112 melodies with historical notes and substantial accompanying tutorial explanations - bowing, fingering, phrasing, ornamentation etc., essential to the idiomatic performance of the style.
  Paperback (144pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 08 5
  HP02
  Includes 'The President' by J Scott Skinner, ABRSM Violin Grade 8 List C alternative piece 2005-2007.

• The Miller 0' Hirn Collection
  
J Scott Skinner
This facsimile of the 1881 edition presents 122 compositions with piano accompaniments comprising reels, strathspeys, jigs, airs, hornpipes, schottisches, songs (verses supplied) and contemporary comments and reviews on Skinner's musical activities - tuition, recitals, fancy balls and assemblies.
Paperback (73pp)
ISBN 0 946 920 16 8
ALO3

• The Beauties of the North
  Bill Hardie
  A Scots fiddle collection of 50 melodies in unique settings, including hitherto unpublished material from J. Scott Skinner, Hector MacAndrew, Patrick Shuldham Shaw and Bill Hardie himself. Introduction and appendix notes.
  Paperback (42pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 02 6
  HP01

• The Fiddle Music of Scotland
  James Hunter, edited by Alastair & William Hardie
  A comprehensive annotated collection of 365 tunes with an historical introduction; foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. This, the most all-embracing collection of Scottish fiddle music undertaken in the 20th century, includes slow airs, marches, strathspeys, reels and rants, hornpipes, jigs and pastorals. All the major composers are represented - the Gows, Marshall, Fraser and Skinner - and all the melodies are fully bowed for the instrument. The introduction traces the history of the fiddle and the music through the centuries, and contains a section on the specialised bowing techniques which give Scottish fiddle music some of its unique qualities. Appendix notes. 
  Paperback (188pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 04 2
  HP03

• The Tom Anderson Collection
  This volume of hitherto unpublished music of Shetland fiddler/composer Tom Anderson (1910-1991), contains 60 compositions including slow airs, marches, hornpipes, reels, waltzes, strathspeys and jigs. Bowings are provided for all the tunes and all the melodies come with chord symbols appropriate for piano, accordion, or fretted stringed instruments. Foreword by Magnus Magnusson.
  Paperback (40pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 18 2
  HP24

• The Nineties Collection
  Edited by Ian Hardie
  This collection of over 200 new tunes captures the revitalised spirit of traditional Scottish music in the last decade of the 20th century. Published in association with the TMSA, this book contains a selection of airs, jigs, marches, pipe tunes, reels, strathspeys, waltzes, hornpipes, polkas and other tunes. Associated cassettes & CDs also available.
  Paperback (152pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 27 1
  SM02

• A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs
  
  68 Jigs from the old 18th and 19th century collections now republished in a modern edition. Composers represented include John Bowie, John Clark, Daniel Dow, Malcolm MacDonald, John MacGlashan, Alexander MacKay, John Riddell, William Shepherd and Robert Mackintosh. The music was researched and selected by Charles Gore and edited by Alastair Hardie who also provided additional bowings and chord symbols. Introductory notes on the background to the jig, the composers and the chord symbols.
  Paperback (48pp)
  ISBN 0 946868 21 2
  HP07

• The Scottish Fiddle Music Index
  The 18th & 19th Century Printed Collections Charles Gore & Morag Anne Elder
  For the first time ever, this book makes it possible to view the tune titles of the whole repertoire of Scottish Fiddle Music published from the early 18th century to the turn of the 20th. This volume contains 4 valuable index sections: an A-Z of tune titles, a musical theme code index (if a tune is known but not its title, it can be found), an index of sources (what collection, which library), explanatory notes on the systems used and appendices such as supplementary listings. This important new work is indispensable to musicians, libraries, schools and learning groups, no matter how distant.
  
  Paperback (189pp) ISBN 187227799 9
  AM0l PBK

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