Roxburgh Castle
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Roxburgh Castle" is a Morris dance tune in 4/4 time and in G major or A major.<br> This is a tune from the Scottish Borders. In its original form it would have been a<br> sailor’s hornpipe, which is like a cross between a hornpipe and a reel (played fast and<br> straight like a reel, but with bouncy hornpipe part endings).<br> It is slowed down a bit and played as a normal hornpipe by morris musicians.<br> Roxburgh Castle is a now ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers<br> Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland. Its castleton developed into the<br> royal burgh of Roxburgh, which the Scots destroyed along with the castle after capturing<br> it in 1460. Today the ruins stand in the grounds of Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke of<br> Roxburghe, across the river from Kelso. <br> It appears in Ryan’s Mammoth Collection and Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes<br> as "Blanchard’s Hornpipe" (both in A major). <br> It was printed in Karpeles and Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs<br> (1951).<br>
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