Having sent this post off I though I would check an older setting of the
Barren Rocks (I've always played the version from the Scots Guards
book). The 1868 Ross Collection has it written without the dot and cut
but also with a slight change in the leading group of notes in each bar.
Instead of the afdf Afdf of the later version it goes to the low A at
the end of the first four notes so is afdA Afdf an dthis pattern follows
through the part.
Ian Lawther wrote:
I was playing through Tom Clough's Bobby Shaftoe this evening and
realized that the 6th part is identical in pattern to the 4th part of
the highland pipe march The Barren Rocks of Aden (P/M A MacKeller c.
1843). The Barren Rocks is in D and written with a dot/cut rhythm in
bars 1,2 5 and 6 and dot,cut,cut,dot in 3,4,and 7 while Shaftoe is in
C and even throughout but the only note difference is in final four
notes of the seventh bar where Barren Rocks sticks to the previous
patterns and has AECE while Clough partially inverts what has come
before to GBDB.
Ian Lawther
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