Annotation:Braes of Brothertown (The)

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X:1 T:Braes of Brothertown M:6/8 L:1/8 R:Jig B:”Printed and Sold by Stewart & Co. Music Sellers South Bridge Street” (c. 1793-1802, p. 2) N:Untitled, unattributed collection of 12 airs. However the Catalog of the Wighton Collection N:gives that it was printed for Alexander Campbell, editor of Albyn's Anthology B:https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/118867812 Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G V:1 G2D E2D|FGD E2D|DEG GFG|AcB B2A| G2D E2D|FGD E2D|DEG cec|dBA G3:| |:[c2e2][ce][c2e2][ce]|egf edB|d2d dBG|cdB B2A| G2D E2D|FGD E2D|DEG cec|dBA G3:|] V:2 clef = bass G,2B, C2B,|C2B,C2B,|[G,2B,2]z [A,2C2]B,|A,2G, D2C| B,2G,C2B,|C2B, C2B,|[G,3B,3][G,3C3]|D2D, G,3:| |:[G,3C3E3] [G,3C3E3]|[G,3C3][G,3B,3]|[G,3B,3D3] [G,3B,3D3]|[A,2C2][G,B,]D2C| [G,2B,2]B, C2B,|[G,2B,2]B, C2B,|[G,2B,2]z [G,3C3]|D2D, G,3:|]

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BRAES OF BROTHERTOWN, THE. Scottish, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Balthaynoch House" is contained in a small four-page collection by an unknown composer or editor, that is simply entitled: "Edinr. Printed & Sold by Stewart & Co. Music Sellers South Bridge Street." However the Catalog of the Wighton Collection gives that it was printed for Alexander Campbell, editor of Albyn's Anthology (1815), and the tune was likely composed by him. Brotherton (note sp.) is an area of greenspace between Pobeth and Brucefield in West Lothian, Scotland, although there is also Brotherton House in Montrose, a substantial mansion house in Scottish baronial style, and a Brotherton Castle in Kincardineshire. In John Black's poem "A Ramble Round West Calder Parish", West Lothian, the braes are cited:

The bonnie glen o' Gavieside,
An' Brotherton's braw braes,
When robed in leafy, floral pride
Are worthy sweetest praise.

There was an estate at Brotherton in Campbell's time, in the possession of John Davie (who also owned the adjoining Gavieside estate, the name of another of Campbell's tunes), known in Edinburgh as "Sooty Davie", proprietor of a chemical works that manufactured sal ammoniac (Ammonium Chloride) derived from coal-soot. See note for "annotation:Gaviside" for more on Sooty Davie family and the estates.

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