Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

Tunes:
David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
William Napier: Braes of Athol
Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool

Here is a link to the Gordon Mooney Article on Border/Lowland Pipe Revival I was referencing.
https://oddscotland.com/lowland-and-border-pipers-society-history

The Art for this episode comes from the Natinol Library of Scotland, by Susan Fletcher Crawford
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/22521/drummond-castle-perthshire

David Young Wrote these settings for the Duke of Perth at Drummond Castle in 1734, I have used the copies available from Ross’s Music Page, all the tunes in this episode come from the first of two PDFs on Ross’s Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
The actual PDF download is the below link:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

First Tune from David Young is Braes of Atholl
Decent information on David Young’s numerous other publications can be found here:
https://www.altpibroch.com/y3/
Note that the tune also appears in John Walsh’s Country Dance books both English and Scottish according to Traditional Tune Archive, I could not find it there.
It does appear with slight variations in Robert Bremner’s Scots Reels book from 1757: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003153

Also according to Traditional Tune Archive it is in William Vickers MS.

Braes of Atholl from William Napier’s 1798 collection is quite different and fun for Uilleann Pipes:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105015671
Bio on William Napier from HMS.Scot: Biographical info: Napier lived c.1740-1812, and died in London. He was a violinist both at Edinburgh's Canongate Theatre, and for Edinburgh Musical Society, before moving to London. (Alburger, 120; Macleod) He played in prestigious bands including the court of George III, and in middle life set up as publisher, later also starting a circulating library. Napier comissioned music from Haydn and was well-connected with other classical composers. (Grove; Baptie) (https://hms.scot/fiddle/source/201/)

David Young: New Bigging. The Next Tune I play is New Bigging, likely named for the tune of Newbigging, in Angus. It sounds very familiar, but it also may just remind me of the mystery tune I play before it. Do you know what it is called?

The Next tune I play from Drummond Castle is Kiss’d Yestereen.

18teens: Neil Gow & Sons: Oh How I was kiss’d Yestreen in the Second repository of The Dance Music of Scotland:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)

1840s: James Rook’s Manuscript: Oh How I was Kissed Yestereen:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/033.htm

1848: William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen, He calls it a quickstep, so I play it like I would a 6/8 march, then play it as written.
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

David Young: The Malt Man. This tune again also appears in Gow’s Repository and Rook’s Manuscript.

1828: Donald MacDonald’s Setting for Kick the Rogues Out: Can you recognize the funky gracing in the beginning?
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105683188

1812: Elizabeth Ross’s You Silly Fool or "Amedain ghórich"
Elizabeth Ross’s Impressive collection from Raasay in 1812. We will certainly be talking about this collection in the future. You can download the impressive PDF here:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/imports/fileManager/RossMS.pdf

1757: Robert Bremner (I didn’t play this setting but you can look at it here)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002691

1734: David Young: Kick the World Before You

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