S 10 E 15 The William Mackie Manuscript Playthrough Part 1

Tunes:
William Mackie: Taste Life's Glad Moments, Robin Adair, Ye Branks and Baes of Bonny Dune, The Banks of the Dee, What ails this heart of mine, Paddy O'Rafferty
Robert Menzies: Taste Life's Glad Moments,
Smollet Holden: Aleen Aroon
O'Farrell: Paddy O'Rafferty with variations
Angus MacKay: Paddy O'Rafferty with variations
Seamus Ennis: Paddy O'Rafferty, The Reverend Brother's Jig

Big Thanks to John Dally, Stephen McNally, Pete Stewart and Adam Sanderson for helping with my attempts at salvaging my miserable pornunciations.

For an article on the "Z" or yogh letter:
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/scottish-handwriting/coaching/letter-finder/letter-yogh

Most of the tunes this week come from William Mackie's 1828 Pastoral Pipes manuscript still available on Ross's Music Page:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/mackie-part1.pdf

here is an archived photo of Mackie's pipes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240329181248/http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-579-671-C&scache=2u56p5txg5&searchdb=scran

Other Sources:

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1823: Taste Life’s Glad Moments from Edinburgh Chapbook

https://digital.nls.uk/chapbooks-printed-in-scotland/archive/104184666

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1793: Robin Adair from Edinburgh Musical Miscellany https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94581712

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1818: Robin Adair : The Much Admired Ballad, as sung by Mr. Philipps arranged for piano forte or harp by W. Reeve

[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015096437556)

For a Chapter on the History of “Robin Adair and Eileen Aroon” see:

Stories of Famous Songs vol 1_ by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, 1901

[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h](https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002410743h)

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1810: Aleen Aroon from Smollet Hoden’s A Collection of Farorite Irish Airs arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte”
https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP740826-PMLP1177690-smollet

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