S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

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October 6th, 2023

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S7 E23 Drummond Castle Manuscript Part 2

Tunes:
David Young: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad, Unfortunate Jock, The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in the Harvest, A Ranting Highlandman, Fettercairn Reel,
Patrick MacDonald: North Highland Reel #10
William Dixon: Hacky Honey

Thanks to Stephen McNally for the reversed negative image of the title page.

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Thanks to Rob Felsburg for these lovely Scottish Smallpipes which feature heavely on this episode. Check out his instruments here:
https://www.thequietpiper.com/

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The Majority of the Tunes on this episode come from The Drummond Castle Manuscript by David Young, likely created in 1737. It is split up into 2 PDFs on Ross’s Music Page: The First PDF includes an index, which was very necessary for figuring out the titles on some of the harder to read pages.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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You can Listen to Part 1 (from several years ago) where ever you get your podcasts of here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e04
Tunes (For Part 1)
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

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PART 2

1737: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad. All from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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Unfortunate Jock:

1737: David Young has it as Unfortunate Jock.

1784: Tune number 10 from “North Highland Reels” section of Patrick McDonald’s Collection.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA34&printsec=frontcover

You can buy the annotated print of the book with tune titles filled in here:
https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection

“A Jig” (No. 193) from James Aird
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n80/mode/1up?view=theater

This lovely Set from Brìghde Chaimbeul
Turf’s Lodge into Aird’s Jig
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/track/turf-lodge-airds-jig

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1737: From David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript:

The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay Be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in The Harvest All from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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1733: Hacky Honey From William Dixon’s Manuscript (Matt Seattle’s Version)

From David Greenberg and Chris Norman: a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey

You can listen where ever you get your podcasts, or here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e14

From the Show Notes of Season 5 Episode 14: “Big thanks to David Greenberg and Chris Norman for allowing me to play their full track: General Reid from their album Let Me In This Ae Night the track is a set of a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey. You can and should buy their whole album, but in the mean time you can stream it on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4DWQdp7wKySlfzuPMVkdO0
amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B003AMICX2?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US
You can check out Chris Norman’s website here:
https://boxwood.org/

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1737: A Ranting Highlandman, Fettercairn Reel All from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond2.pdf

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