S6 2022 Halloween Episode With Tunes by James Moyar

Tunes:
From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair, At My Wake,
1791: From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass:
John Watlen: The Milliner’s House in the Pantomime “The Fairy’s Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil
From Barry Shears: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster, I Can’t Get a Grant Rant, John G. Dally, Mrs. Evelyn Shears, Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Put Me in the Big Chest), The Ale is Dear,
From Jeremy’s Memory: Piper’s Warning to His Master
Oliver and Company: Oscar’s Ghost
From Campbell (Albyn’s Anthology): Young Benjie
Peter Bellamy: Mountain Streams Where the Moorecocks Crow

Thanks James for your songs and Tunes.
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Tunes:

From James Moyar: She Moved Through The Fair,

James said of this track: “She Moved Through the Fair” played on Walsh polypenco 4-drone Scottish small pipes tied into a quiet piper bag, D-chanter, synthetic reeds, with singing.

First known instance of transcription: “Irish Country Songs,” 1909, Padraic Colum. Alternative titles include, “Our Wedding Day”.

I’ve heard versions of the lyrics that end, “happier,” with her not being dead and them getting married. I skipped a verse or two to make this recording shortER than it could be, though it’s still pretty long.

This is the first song I learned to sing with pipes, by listening to Judy Barker’s Chanters Weave album a lot, and following the arrangement in Timothy Cummings’ “How Can I Keep From Singing,” collection, though I’ve done it so many times that at this point I think this is at least kinda-unique. I do like messing with the lyrics to get as much alliteration as possible…. But a tune as old and as popular as this one has sooooo many renditions floating around, it’s hard to imagine that there’s a lot I could do with it at this point that would be truly, “original”.

From James: Death and the Sinner

James said of this track: played on Booth Blackwood Drones, Bordeaux Redwood reeds, tied into a gangway hide bag, with Warnock chanter that’s been altered to allow for, “extra notes”. In this case, the extra notes are a G#, high-B, and high-C#

Alternative titles include, “Cold in my Coffin,” and, “The Night of my Wake” - all really awesome titles, though, “Death and the Sinner,” is my personal favorite. I first heard it on Uilleann pipes here, and immediately fell in love with the melody. I was really excited to find that it worked on this altered chanter.

One version of the lyrics goes like this:

The night of my wake there will be pipes and tobacco,
With snuff on a plate on a table for fashion's sake;
Mold candles in rows like torches watching me,
And I cold in my coffin by the dawn of day.
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From Watlin’s Celebrated Circus Tunes

1791: The Milliner’s House in the Pantomime “The Fairy’s Triumph”, Seige of Belgrade by the Little Devil From The Celebrated Circus Tunes Performed at Edinburgh this season, With the additions of some new reels and strathspeys set for the piano forte or violin and bass: By John Watlen:
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n100/mode/1up?view=theater

From Legacy By Barry Shears

2022: The Mermaid and the Sea Monster By Barry Shears

2022: I Can’t Get a Grant Rant

2022: John G.Dally & Mrs. Evelyn Shears

You can and Should Pick up Barry’s Book Here:
https://capebretonpiper.com/

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A Piper’s Warning to his Master

You can see several settings for this tune in this excellent PDF:
https://www.pipesdrums.com/wp-content/docengines/A51191C54453471192974BB509421138.pdf

Here is a link to the Documentary Brian May first shared last year when I included this on the Bonus Episode:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x81u9f2
You can find many different youtube videos about the affair of questionable and varying quality.

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Oscar’s Ghost

1806: Oscar’s Ghost from Caledonian Musical Repository: a choice selection of esteemed Scottish songs, adapted for the voice, violin, and German flute. Published by Oliver and Company
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87663987

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Cuir ‘sa Chiste Mhoir Mi (Put Me in the Big Chest), The Ale is Dear

From Barry Shears. Put Me in the Big Chest is from Play it like I Sing It Vol. 2

Ale is Dear if from Legacy

You can and Should Pick up Barry’s Book Here:
https://capebretonpiper.com/

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Young Benjie

1816: Young Benjie, A Border Ballad From Albyn’s Anthology by Alexander Campbell

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nc01.ark:/13960/t5s77tq6m&view=1up&seq=47&q1=a%20border%20melody

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Mountain Streams Where the Moorecocks Crow

For some good information check out this site:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html
Or here:
https://www.vwml.org/roudnumber/2124

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