Recommended Fiddle Books

Alburger, Mary Anne  - Scottish Fiddlers and their Music; 1983.
Anderson, Tom  and Georgeson, Tom - Da Mirrie Dancers; 1970, Ringing Strings; 1970.
Anderson, Tom and Swing, Pam - Haand me doon da fiddle; 1979.
Bowie, John - A Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances; 1789.
Campbell, Joshua - A Collection of Newest and Best Reels; 1788.
Collinson, Francis - The Traditional and National Music of Scotland; 1966.
Cooke, Bill - A Guide to Scottish Fiddling; 1990.
Cooke, Peter - The Shetland Tradition; 1986.
Dunlay,Kate and Greenberg,David  - The Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton; 1996.
Emmerson, George S. - Scotland Through her Country Dances; 1967, Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String; 1988.
Flett, J.P. and Flett, T.M. - Traditional Dancing in Scotland; 1964.
Fraser, Captain Simon - The Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands and  Islands; 1816.
Galloway, John - article on the old fiddle music of the Highlands in The Weekend Scotsman;  9/2/91.
Garret, David - An Fhideag Airgid; 1994.
Glen, John - The Glen Collection (music collections and biographies); 1891-95, reprinted Highland Music Trust 2001.
Gow, Niel - The Beauties of Niel Gow; 1819.
Grant, Charles - Strathspeys, Reels, Pibrochs and Marches; no date circa late 19th C.
Hardie, Alistair - The Caledonian Companion; 1981.
Henderson, John Murdoch - The Flowers of Scottish Melody; 1935.
Honeyman, William C. - The Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor; no date, circa 1900.
Hunter, James - The Fiddle Music of Scotland; 1979.
James S. Kerr - Kerr’s Collection of Merry Melodies; from 1875.
Johnston, David - Scottish Fiddle Music of the 18th Century; 1984.
McDonald, Patrick - Patrick McDonald Collection; 1784, reprinted Taigh na Teud 2000.
McGlashan, Alexander  - Strathspey Reels Book 1; 1778.
Marshall, William - Marshall’s Scottish Airs, Melodies;1822.
Martin,Christine - Tog Fonn! Books 1 and 2; 1994 and 1997.
Murray, Bert - The Bon Accord Collection; 1999.
Neil, J. Murray - The Scots Fiddle; 1999.
Orkney Strathspey and Reel Society - Fiddle Music and Song of the Orkney Isles; 1977.
Oswald, James - The Caledonian Pocket Companion (12 volumes) c. 1758.
Skinner, James Scott - The Scottish Violinist; 1900, The Harp and the Claymore; 1904, A Guide to Bowing Strathspeys, Reels, Pastoral Melodies, Hormpipes etc;1900, reprinted Hardie Press 1984.
Thurston, H.A. - Scotland’s Dances; 1954.