Originally a ballet score this 30' work is scored with strings and consists of three movements:cumnock fair: A 12-minute fantasy based on dance melodies by the 18th-century Cumnock composer John French. The moods range widely from playful, rustic, archaic, ungainly, dreamy, boisterous, stately, brutal and grotesque to mysterious and unnerving.shambards': Memories of Burnsian folksong are interrupted by new dance tunes built on fragments from the Mad Scene from Act 3 of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, based on the novel by Walter Scott. shamnation. Low throbbing in the piano becomes a drumbeat to accompany a fast violin reel using three tunes and following a traditional 8-barstructure. The solo piano part emerges as a counterpoint to the Scottish themes after which the music winds its way through many different keys.
| Arrangement | Orchestra, Piano |
| Format | Study Score |
| NumberOfPages | 92 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Boosey and Hawkes |
| Contributors | MacMillan, James(Composer) |
| ISBN | 9780851627748 |
| ISMN | 9790060124549 |
| UPC | 884088900205 |