Stepping northward
Subtitle: 24 Scots airs and dances for violin with cello accompaniment
By: edited by David Johnson with Edna Arthur
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Enlightenment Edinburgh series
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Description: Before pianos became widespread in Scotland, fiddling was often accompanied by a cello, without a keyboard instrument. This collection re-explores the fiddle-and-cello combination, well known in the time of Burns, from a modern viewpoint.
Table of contents: title: Twenty-four Scots airs for violin/cello duo, including The Flowers of Edinburgh, The white cockade, Staten Island, Victorian variations on Thereαs nae luck about the house, 1960s-folk-revival ballad The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry.