Season 5 Episode 10 Jackson playthrough part 2 & Drops of Brandy Deep Dive
April 10th, 2021
47 mins 2 secs
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William Dixon: Apprentice Lads of Alnwick
Jackson: Jackson Over the Water, Jackson’s Dream, Jackson’s Night Cap, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Cummilum, Jackson’s Dream
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Dream, Cummalum with variations
Angus MacKay’s Drops of Brandy, The Isle of Skye Local Militia’s March
David Young: Drops of Brandy
John Sutherland: Cummilum an Irish Tune
Donald MacDonald: The Far Away Wedding
Matt Seattle: Old Drops of Brandy
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I found this Twitter Thread somewhat helpful in understanding some parts of what is going on in Belfast:
https://twitter.com/NiamhGal/status/1380172979376697354?s=20
1733: William Dixon’s Apprentice Lads of Alnwick
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
1774: Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html
James Aird Vol 3: Jackson’s Night Cap: It seems like Aird Copied Jackson’s Book Note for Note, so I don’t play this as a separate tune but you can see it here:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87704775
1774: Walker Jackson: Jackson’s Dream
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html
1808: O’Farrell: Jackson’s Dream
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780494
1774: Walker Jackson: Cummilum
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html
1785: Sutherland’s Cummillum an Irish Tune: Tune number 136 on Page 70:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-41-80.pdf
1800: O’Farrell: Cummalum with Variations
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html
1808: O’Farrell: Trip to Kilarney You can look at this just to see how similar it is to the Variations O’Farrell put into Cummalum:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779738
1734: David Young: Drops of Brandy (page 23 of PDF)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
1854: Angus MacKay: Drops of Brandy & Isle of Skye Local Militia’s March
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007102
1828: Donald MacDonald’s Far awa’ Wedding
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682847
Here are some of the Playford Tunes from the 1600s that people think are a grandfather of Drops of Brandy:
https://playforddances.com/dances/virgin-queen/
http://playforddances.com/dances/scotland/
2006:Matt Seattle’s (Old) Drops of Brandy: This is Matt’s own setting based on several historical accounts, beginning with David Young’s. It appears in Over the Hills and Far Away
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/over-the-hills-and-far-away
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