Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast
Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries
We found 10 episodes of Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast with the tag “baroque”.
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S 08 E07 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 2 (Patrick MacDonald's Piper)
April 20th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 4 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
William Vickers: Strike The Bell
Johnson: Simon Pure
Straight and Skillern: Stage Chace
Menzies: Taste Life’s Glad Moments
Patrick MacDonald: Tune 7 (The Goat Herd), Tune 8 (Spoigan/The Innundation), Tune 9 (The Drover Lads), Tune 10 (The Unfortunate Jock), Tune 11 (Behind the Bush in the Garden), Tune 12
Donald MacDonald: The Goat Herd
William Gunn: The Goat and Sheep Herd, The Inundation, The Drover Lads, Behind the Bush in the Garden
Angus MacKay: The Goat Herd
David Glen: The Goat Herd
Robert Ross: Spoigan
David Young: Unfortunate JockYou can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
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S 08 E 06 Gathering Of the Clans Revisited a Conversation with Barry Shears
April 13th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 39 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
Barry Shears: The Hen's March over the Hill, John MacColl's Favourite
O'Farrell: The Hen's Concert
Several other tunes played by Barry ShearsCheck out Barry's New Edition of Gathering of the Clans here:
https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-anniversary-edition
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S 08 E 05 Thank You Ross Anderson: Tunes from John Sutherland and David Young
April 6th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 3 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
John Sutherland Manuscript: The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Cock and the Hen, Fanny’s Fancy, The Witches,
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,+X+X+X+
All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s 1780s Manuscript and the Drummond Castle Manuscript from 1737 available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
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Here are some Obituaries and Tributes to Ross Anderson:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366577932/Obituary-Professor-Ross-Anderson-pioneer-in-security-engineering-and-campaigner
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/03/31/rip-ross-j-anderson/
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2024/03/29/rip-ross-anderson/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-1-april-2024/39303/
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/ross-anderson
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/ross_anderson_obit/FIN
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S 08 E 04 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 1 (Patrick MacDonald's North Highland Piper)
March 23rd, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 8 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
Patrick McDonald: Ossian’s soliloquy on the death of all his cotemporary Heroes, North Highland Country Dances tunes 1-6, 24, Màraidh bhàn òg. {Potential/likely titles for tune 1-6: Tune 1: Joseph MacDonald’s Jig, Tune 2: Lady Wemyss’ Jig/Whip her and gird her, Tune 3: Far awa Wedding, Tune 4: maybe Shaggy Grey Buck, Tune 5: Stumpie, Tune 6& 24: Lord Reay’s Jig}
O’Farrell: Apples in Winter
Holden: Irish Trott
Donald MacDonald: LadyWemyss’ Jig
William Vickers: Cold and RawOrder and Thoughts:
Nearly All the tunes come from Patrick Mac Donald's Collection of Highland Vocal Airs:
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The reprinted edition with the tune names in the notes can be found here: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collectionPatrick MacDonald (Joseph MacDonald Section)
1784: Ossian’s soliloquy on the death of all his cotemporary Heroes
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Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland Country Dances (George MacLeod)
Thanks to Keith Sanger for identifying Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland piper.
I read some Excerpts from:
Ian Grimble, The World of Rob Donn (Edinburgh: The Edina Press, 1979).+X+X
Tune 1: Joseph MacDonald’s Jig. Likely named for Patrick’s Brother. Somewhat awkward dotting and cutting.
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Tune 2: G# Tune, Whip her and Gird her, Note that Patrick annotates every G if there is a sharp in it, not just the first one (unlike other settings in this section).+X+X+X+
Set from Cold and Raw
1808: Apples in Winter
From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780458
1807: Irish Trott from Smollet Holden’s A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs Vol 1
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)1828: Lady Wemyss’ Jig from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682572
1776: Cold and Raw from William Vickers Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0305000.jpg+X+X+X+
Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland Country Dances (George MacLeod)
Tune 3: Far Awa Wedding is how I play this tune most (I think) from Donald MacDonald, not sure I included it but has an f grace note on an f up to a high G.
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Tune 4: Shaggy Grey Buck? I feel like I’ve seen this tune in Donald MacDonald, note the c grace notes to D, sometimes from a C c grace, D.
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Tune 5: Stumpie: Similar gracing style, with the e grace note on an E, also like that c sixteenth note as grace note in this tune.
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Tune 6: Lord Reay’s Jig…Lord Reay’s Piper possibly, Tune is in A Minor (C Maj) but with the F marked as Sharp. Slightly atypical gracing style from previous (though more conventionally GHB with an E gracenote for transition of C to D. also note the one F being sharp… next one not labeled Natural…
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Tune 24: Lord Reay’s Jig (slightly different than 6) the F sharp, F nat seems more clear here because of the repeat of marked f# it’s cool that both tunes use the F sharp F Nat it’s the Double F Dilema for a Wizard!+X+X+X+
Lord Reay Wizard story from:
Donald Omand, Caithness: Lore and Legend (Wick: North of Scotland Publishers, 1995).
https://archive.org/details/caithnessloreleg0000oman/page/42/mode/1up+X+X+
Patrick MacDonald (Joseph MacDonald Section)
1784: Màraidh bhàn òg
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S 08 E 03 My Approach to Music Theory and the Historical Repertoire
March 9th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 3 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
Bremner: St. Paul/Aberdeen, Bristol
John Murphy: Miss Boswell’s JigWilliam Dixon: Hacky Honey
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Here is a link to the music Theory video Rod shared with me about the way white supremacists have used music Theory:
https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA?si=GQqtJUc7O6VFbIc6I recorded this episode about a month before this article often discussed with some sort of click bait title like “Pythagoras was wrong about music theory” (speaking of clickbait, did you know academics and journalists alike don’t often get a say on the title of their work, so if you see a particularly egregious title, don’t necessarily hold it against the author). The abstract is that our “western musical theory and the idea that there was universal harmonies, and that good music is just about consonance and not dissonance” is obviously a really limited perspective on what good music is, and intrinsically apparent to anyone who plays a drone instrument, or regulators.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-zSettings:
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1762: Aberdeen (In G) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723589+X+X+X+
1762: Bristol (In G minor) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723781+X+X+X+
1810: Miss Boswell’s Jigg from John Murphy
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en+X+X+X+
1733: Hacky Honey from William Dixon’s Manuscript
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S 08 E 02 UPDATED Robert Bremner's Rudiments of Music
February 24th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 3 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
Robert Bremner: French, Elgin, Stilt, Jush of Perth, Blue Britches, DunfermlingYou can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
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S08 E 01 My Approach to a Historical Repertoire
February 10th, 2024 | Season 8 | 1 hr 5 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
O’Farrell: Humours of Toddy
Niel Dicke: Patti
Donald MacDonald: Dunrobin Castle
Jeremy Kingsbury: The Pretty Sporran
Angus MacKay: The Pretty Dirk
Patrick MacDonald: Lord Reay’s Jig
Straight and Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree,
James Aird: Rondo(Sources and Links Coming Soon, email me If you want something and I haven’t uploaded the Show notes yet)
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Rerun: The Patrick McDonald’s Discussion With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart
January 27th, 2024 | Season 7 | 1 hr 20 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
Tunes:
From Joe Hughie MacIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.On the Podcast this week I’m joined by Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart to have a conversation with Patrick McDonald's Collection of Vocal Airs as the starting point.
Tunes: From Joe Hughie MacIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.
Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts (Now on Stitcher!) or by following the link below:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e22email me at wetootwaag@gmail.com if you'd like to participate in a book club discussion of the Patrick McDonald Collection Book If I hear from enough folks I'll try to set one up.
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Rerun Important Influences: The Patrick McDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs Audiobook
January 13th, 2024 | Season 7 | 1 hr 25 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
This is a rerun of an episode from July, 2021.
The Preface and Article were Read by Anthony Smith.Get in touch with him about any voiceover projects via email:
2acanthonysmith@gmail.comYou can watch his excelent Bodhran Videos on his Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/smithpercussions/
If you would like to see the Patrick McDonald Original book you can read it here:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=0You can buy the annotated print of the book with tune titles filled in here:
https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collectionYou can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag
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S7 E29 Susanna Blamire (the Muse of Cumberland) and the Season Finale
December 30th, 2023 | Season 7 | 1 hr 20 mins
bagpipes, baroque, border music, celtic music, country dance, dance music, eighteenth century, greath highland bagpipes, history, irish bagpipes, irish history, light music, nineteenth century, performance, recorded music, scottish bagpipes, scottish history, talk show, uilleann pipes, united kingdom history
S7 E29 Susana Blamire and the Season Finale
Tunes:
Eliza Ross: Miss Mary____, Unnamed, Will you Take a Wife Donald,
Christian Dalrymple (via James Watlen): Miss Watson’s Favorite
Anna Gordon: Clark Colven
David Young: Tibbie Fowler of the Glen, Hey My Nanny,
Ewan Maccoll: Tibbie Fowler
Susana Blamire: I’m Tibby Fowler of the Glen, Oh Jenny Dear I’ve Courted Lang, Oh Donald! Ye are Just the Man, Jack Lattin, Cumberland Scold, Dear Nancy, Oh Jenny Dear the Word is Gane,
Henderson: Lucy Campbell
William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Vickers: Cold and RawIf you want to watch two stellar webinars hosted by the Woodsworth Grasmere https://wordsworth.org.uk/ , which houses Blamire’s Archive I’d recommend these videos:
https://youtu.be/6BhNwSddNuo?si=CF8RyqIkJrhbLhhB
https://youtu.be/suAcu0xfGp4?si=DslPwim5BeCCGZF5
Order:Low F Women’s Set
1812: (Miss Mary___, and Unnamed Jig From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript
http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript
You can buy the New Book version here from the National Piping Centre:
https://www.thebagpipeshop.co.uk/products/the-eliza-ross-collection-pre-order+X+X+
1791: Miss Watson’s Favorite from John Watlen’s Celebrated Circus Tunes
https://archive.org/details/Shand11/page/n100/mode/1up?view=theater+X++X++X+
Late Eighteenth Century: Clark Colven
I arranged this based on how it appears in the rather expensive book “The Ballad Repertoire of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown”
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ballad_Repertoire_of_Anna_Gordon_Mrs/6MHWzAEACAAJ?hl=en
I’m away from my copy at the moment, but you can see similar lyrics here:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/frankie.armstrong/songs/clerkcolvill.html+X+X+X+
Susana Blamire:
The Remainder of the Tunes and songs come from the Poetical Works of Susanna Blamire, which were first published in 1842, nearly fifty years after Susanna Died in 1794:Song from Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
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Tibbie Fowler
1737 Tibbie Fowler in the Glen from Drummond Castle Manuscript (Ross’s Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf+X+
1787: Tibbie Foweler from Scots Musical Museum by Johnson (and Burns and others)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87803282Pre 1794: I’m Tibby from Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
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Pre 1794: Oh Jenny Dear I’ve Courted Lang (Lucy Campbell from Henderson) from Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
1900: Lucy Campbell From Henderson’s Tutor for the Bagpipe and Collection of Pipe Music
https://ceolsean.net/content/Hendo/Hendo_TOC.html+X+X+X+
Pre 1794: Oh Donald! Ye are just the man from Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
1812: Will you Take a Wife Donald From Eliza Ross’s Manuscript
http://web.archive.org/web/20230204123514/https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript
You can buy the New Book version here from the National Piping Centre:
https://www.thebagpipeshop.co.uk/products/the-eliza-ross-collection-pre-orderPre 1794: Cumberland Scold (Jack Lattin) From Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
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1737: Hey My Nanny from Drummond Castle Manuscript (Ross’s Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdfPre 1794: Dear Nancy from From Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
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1766: Commentaries on the Laws of England from William Blackstone.
Read in full https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_commentaries-on-the-laws_blackstone-sir-william_1766/page/430/mode/2up .+X+X+X+
Pre 1794: Oh Jenny the Word is Gane (Cold and Raw) From Susanna Blamire’s Poetical Works https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksmi00maxwgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?view=theater
1776: Cold and Raw from William Vickers’ Manuscript:
http://www.farnearchive.com/show_images.asp?id=R0303904&image=1+X+X+X+
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