Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Walsh”

S5E22: Discussion of The Patrick McDonald Collection With Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
From Joe Hughie McIntyre courtesy of the Barry Shears Collection: Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud.

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This episode is a discussion between myself, Keith Sanger, Matt Seattle, Barry Shears and Pete Stewart with Patrick McDonald's Collection of Vocal Airs as the starting point.
email me at wetootwaag@gmail.com if you'd like to participate in a book club discussion of the Patrick McDonald Collection Book on Wednesday August 11th at 7 PM US Central Time US.

My Guests:

Keith Sanger doesn’t have a website, but much of his scholarship is available online, here are some noteworthy examples:
https://www.wirestrungharp.com/harps/harpers/mapping-clarsach/
https://www.wirestrungharp.com/revival/conundrum/
http://www.altpibroch.com/learning/what-is-piobaireachd/
http://www.altpibroch.com/learning/piobaireachd-cheann-deas-the-earl-of-ross-march/

Matt Seattle’s Website where you can check out his new tune collection as well as is here: https://www.mattseattle.scot/

Barry Shears Website is a wealth of information on the history of Piping in Nova Scotia, you can buy several books there, including Play it like you Sing it vol. 2 which features notation of the clip he sent along to play: https://capebretonpiper.com/

Pete Stewart has published several excellent books, you can buy them here:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/
He is also the editor of the Common Stock Journal from the LBPS which you can read even if not a member (apart from the most recent issues):
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock

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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=0

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

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From Barry Shears on the Playing of Joe Hughie MacIntyre:

“This recording is from The Shears Collection.
Joe Hughie Macintyre (1891-1968), Rathad Fraingach(French Road) Cape Breton county, The tunes are Tulloch Gorum, Sandy Cameron, Eight Men of Moidart, Miss Proud. Joe Hughie was descended from Duncan MacIntyre, Clanranald’s mid 18th century piper. The family came to Cape Breton in 1826 and piping continued to play a prominent role with successive generations producing 28 pipers and chanter players down through the years after immigration. I was taught to play by Joe Hughie’s first cousin, Angus MacIntyre of Glace Bay.
Joe Hughie only started to read music after his retirement so many of the recordings I have, many with piano accompaniment, reflect some of his later repertory., but there are still a few gems among his own music. I provided several of the tunes in his repertory in both The Cape Breton Collection of bagpipe music and Play It Like You Sing I, Volume 2: https://capebretonpiper.com/content/play-it-you-sing-it-volume-2 .This last book has 249 tunes from various areas of Gaelic settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Since no two pipers played the same way from area to area, I have transcribed the music with minimum grace-noting since most pipers will add their own embellishments anyway.

I am also including the reference from Joesph MacDonad’s Treatise, regarding paying dance music and doubling up of the notes which describes the piob embellishments used and most examples listed can be found employed by CB pipers I have recordings of. Not exactly as they played in 1800 perhaps, but still some shadows of two the tunes were played.”

You can and Should buy a Digital Copy of Roddy Cannon's Edition of Josph McDonald's Book here:
https://www.piobaireachd.co.uk/product/joseph-macdonalds-compleat-theory

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S5E20 Lament of a Druid and William Litten's Manuscript With Guest Music from David Barrett

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Litten: Prince of Wales Minuet, The Goose’s Minuet, Kissing and Flirting, Kissing and Drinking, The Royal Hunt, They Royal Review, St. Catherine’s Lane at Five, Duke Gordon’s Reel, Cotillion.
Fox: Lament of a Druid
Neal: I’m asleep and Don’t waken me
Set from Dave Barret: Red Haired Boy, and Paddy’s Leather Breeches.
Piobaireachd: The Vaunting

Special Thanks to David Barrett for sending in a track from his Starting to See Album,
To pick up a copy to support Blinded Veterans of America you can see it on Band Camp:
https://visionpiping.bandcamp.com/album/starting-to-see

Episode art is of The Bombay Castle, one of the ships that Litten Sailed with as part of the East India Fleet in 1800.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bombay_Castle_(1782)

Mail Coach Tunes

1900 (1792) Lament of A Druid: From Charlotte Milligan-Fox
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Irish_Folk_Song_Society_L/0-o2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover

1724: Neal’s Setting for Ta me ma Chulla na doushe me (I am Asleep and Don’t waken me)
The Fascimile edition is great and I highly recommend it, But you can look at the ABC here thanks to ITMA:
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/neal-17

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The Vaunting

1948 (Much older tune) The Vaunting I’m playing the Kilberry setting, but it is much older.
https://www.altpibroch.com/ps235/
I highly Recommend William Donaldson’s Notes on the Vaunting from Pipes and Drums:
http://www.pipesdrums.com/wp-content/docengines/0AED190CF16C4B6EBCE39F0B990A2872.pdf
Here is a live link to John Burgess playing it on Tobar an Dualcais (Kist O Riches)
https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/57393?l=en

Litten Manuscript:

For More information or an ABC notation of the Manuscript go here:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

1802: Princess of Wales Minuet From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

1800: Prince of Wales Minuet (I didn’t play this) If you want to look at Duff’s Setting for the Prince of Wales Minuet it is here: from 1800-1813
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105810955
For the Traditional Tune Archive page I reference:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Princess_of_Wales%27s_Minuet

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1802: The Goose’s Minuet From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

Is actually King George III’s minuet, many settings including Wilson Ballroom:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/King_George_the_III%27s_Minuet

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1802: Royal Hunt From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

1802: The Royal Review: From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

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1802: Kissing and Flirting: From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

1802: Kissing and Drinking: From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

1860: Kissing and Drinking from Goodman:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=129&z=1217.335%2C1132.3591%2C6624.6755%2C2393.4042

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1802: Duke Gordon’s Reel: From Litten, I am having a difficult time Finding this tune in the PDF, but it may very well be there, I found it in this book:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/william-littens-fiddle-tunes-1800-1802/oclc/5129508
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

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1802: Cotillion: From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf

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1802: St. Catherine’s Lane at Five: From Litten:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20MS.pdf
If you want a look at the over versions of this tune I’ll likely explore on a future episode:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Larry_Bourn
Litten has the other setting as :
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Lord_Summer%27s_Reel
One of the Settings is called Hauled on the Howser, Vickers is a bit different:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Haul_Away_the_Hawser_(1)
seems a bit thin since the other Hawser tune which is similar to the St. Catherine tune is from well after Vickers:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Haul_Away_the_Hawser_(2)

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Season 5 Episode 19 A Chat with Joey Abarta about Pat Sky and American Uilleann Piping

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Patrick Sky: Many A Mile
Joey Abarta: Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni CHearbhaill (Fair Gentle Eily OCarroll)

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Joey Abarta

Huge thank you to Joey Abarta for Chatting with me.
You can Buy the Album Copley Street on Bandcamp here:
https://copleystreet.bandcamp.com/album/copley-street
I also recommend looking over the gorgeous website for Copley Street here:
http://www.copleystreet.com/

As of the time of this recording you can still book lessons with Joey at many different levels of commitment and interest here:
https://uilleannpipelessons.youcanbook.me/

Pat Sky

The Track Many A Mile is off Pat Sky’s Debut Album “Patrick Sky” it is streaming many places and available for digital download on some services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sky_(album)

Pat Sky Video from North Carolina Television: https://youtu.be/7al1306eAFI

Pat Sky’s NYTimes Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/music/patrick-sky-dead.html

Pat Sky’s Rolling Stone Obituary: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/patrick-sky-folk-singer-dylan-contemporary-dead-obit-1175891/

I spoke about my history and what Pat Sky meant to me earlier on Episode 16:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e16

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RESOURCES

Joey Referenced some of the cool older Newsletters put out in the 1970s. Most (if not all) Of them are Hosted by NPU for you to read:
This Newsletter "The Uilleann Piper" was begun in 1974 in an attempt to connect all of the known Uilleann Pipers in the US and Canada
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?mediaId=26431&galleryId=1037

The Uilleann Piper grew into the Seattle Piper's Club's Newsletter, "The Piper's Review"
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1036&mediaId=26318

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Season 5 Episode 18: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe & I am Asleep Don’t Wake Me with Music from Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe
Fitzmaurice: I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me, Mount the Stage, Donald Bran, Loose the Belt, Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle
Walsh: Petticoat Loose, Petticoat Tight
Nixon: Petticoat Loose
Allan Ramsay (Stuart): Cha mi ma chattle
Wright: Past One O’Clock
McGibbon: Cold Frosty Morning
Oswald: Cold Frostie Morning (performed by Rob Turner)
Milligan-Fox (Joyce): Lament of a Druid
O’Farrell: Past One O’Clock

Edward Bunting (Higgins): Tá Mé Mo Chodladh (I’m Asleep Don’t Waken Me) (Performed by Simon Chadwick)

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Special Thanks to Pete Stewart, Rob Turner and Simon Chadwick for being On the Episode this week.

Pete Stewart has some great videos uploaded to his Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbihXksKCthLa2FGmI-piBQ
He Sells three of his books on his website:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/
He is also the editor of the Common Stock Journal from the LBPS which you can read even if not a member (apart from the most recent issues):
https://lbps.net/j3site/index.php/common-stock

Rob Turner has glorioius renditions of many tunes from the same collections I have to rip apart and adjust to play, hear them how they were intended by subscribing to Rob’s Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1A

Simon Chadwick also is a must follow on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/simonmchadwick
Simon’s Website is filled with valuable articles and comments on a huge variety of topics, but also many of the printed music sources I play on the podcast:
http://simonchadwick.net/

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1690s: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe: You can buy a lovely print of Thomas Marsden’s “A Collection of Original Lancashire Hornpipes” as part of Pete Stewart’s Book, “Three Extraordinary Collections”:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/index.php/publications/three-extraordinary-collections
The ABC is also available on Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Mr._Preston%27s_Hornpipe_(1)

Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe Played by Pete Stewart:
https://youtu.be/6TXJphyjFfw

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1805: Mount the Stage: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP6&printsec=frontcover

1805: Donald Bran: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover

1805: Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Rosline Castle: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover

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Petticoat Loose:

1748: Petticoat Tight: from Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248459

1748: Petticoat Loose: from Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90247895

1805: Loose the Belt: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover

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1778: Petticoat Loose: From Thomas Nixon Jr’s Music Book
http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/e40080b.htm

For More information on The Nixon Manuscript see here:
https://exhibitions.framinghamhistory.org/home/top-ten/tunebook-1/

Exploring the manuscript is not particularly easy, you have to use two websites to browse by tune title.
This site can give you the titles and what page they are on:
https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/Easmes/TOC/St053752.htm#
This page allows you to click on the page by number but doesn't have any other information on it:
http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/vexid4.htm

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I didn’t play these settings but you can look at them if you want:
1776: William Vickers’ Petticoat Loose:
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0305300.jpg
1812: John Bell’s Petticoat Loose:
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R1009400.jpg

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I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me/Past One O’Clock/Cold Frosty Morning:

1805: I’m Asleep and Don’t Wake Me: From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No 2:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP6&printsec=frontcover

1720s: Cha mi ma chattle: Musick for Allan Ramsay's collection of 71 Scots songs (Set by Stuart):
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/rbc/id/3002

You can Buy Paddy Keenan’s Na Keen Affair Album to listen to the entirety of Johnny’s Song for the Avalon here:
https://www.paddykeenan.com/nakeenaffair

1740s Past One O’Clock: Wright’s Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances both Old and New:
https://www.vwml.org/topics/historic-dance-and-tune-books/Wrights
https://media.vwml.org/images/web/Wrights/37530048.jpg

1750s Cold Frosty Morning: William McGibbon’s Tune 119 in Volume IV
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Tunes_(McGibbon%2C_William)

Many Thanks to Rob Turner for his excellent playing of Oswald’s Cold Frostie Morning:
https://youtu.be/IOW168FRkLo
1745-1760s Cold Frostie Morning: James Oswald’s Caledonia Pocket Companion:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91499924

1806: Past One O’Clock: O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780446

1900 (1792) Lament of A Druid: From Charlotte Milligan-Fox
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Irish_Folk_Song_Society_L/0-o2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover

1792: Tá Mé Mo Chodladh (I’m Asleep Don’t Waken Me): From Edward Bunting’s live notes of Hugh Higgins’playing:
https://digital-library.qub.ac.uk/digital/collection/p15979coll9/id/97/rec/8

You Can Watch Simon’s Performance here:
https://youtu.be/5iH3-Ebv0lE
Simon’s further Notes:
http://simonchadwick.net/2020/05/ta-me-mo-chodladh-from-hugh-higgins-in-1792.html

Willie Clancy Playing Tá mé mo chodladh, nár dhúisce mé can be listened to here:
https://youtu.be/3Gq8BQ0VKmo?t=1858

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I didn’t play these settings or they aren’t Tunes but here are links for your convenience:

1733 The Words from Charles Coffey’s Irish Ballad Opera, “The Beggar’s Wedding” Air X:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Beggar_s_Wedding/UA1EAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA33&printsec=frontcover

1748 Past One O’Clock (Scottish Section) It is in Thurmoth’s Twelve Scotch and Twelve Irish Airs:
https://archive.org/details/imslp-irish-and-12-scotch-airs-with-variations-thumoth-burke/page/n17/mode/1up

1762: Cold Frosty Morning: Francis Peacock’s Fifty Favorite Scotch Airs:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105810724

1840: I Am Asleep and Don’t Waken Me: From Edward Bunting’s The ancient music of Ireland
https://archive.org/details/ancientmusicofir00bunt/page/74/mode/1up

For More information I recommend the Following Tune Annotation Pages from Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:I_Am_Asleep_and_Don%27t_Waken_Me_(2)
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Past_One_O%27Clock

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Season 5 Episode 17: New To me Books Preview

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Patrick MacDonald: Fisherman’s Song For Attracting Seals, Sister of Loves, Chiu-ri-ruo, Wet is this night and cold.
Iain Gelston: Hop Pole, Shields Bar, St. Mary’s Hornpipe, Pegwhistle Barn
Niel Gow & Sons: The Highland Watch, Now the 42nd Regt or Royal Highlanders
O’Neill: Wind That Shakes the Barley
Harrison: Largo’s Fairy Dance
Litten: The Woodford Ship
My Setting: Auld Lang Syne, Wind That Shakes the Barley

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You can purchase Iain Gelston’s New Book Here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/iain-gelston/the-new-shields-garland/paperback/product-4dg4ev.html?page=1&pageSize=4

I bought my Copies of Patrick McDonald's book and Niel Gow and Sons on the same website:
McDonald's: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection
Gow Book: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-6UDZOB/gows-repository-of-the-dance-music-of-scotland

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1784: Patrick McDonald’s Collection. For Sister of Loves, Chiu-ri-ruo and Wet is This Night and Cold are all on Page 1. Fishermans’ Song For Attracting Seals is on Page 7
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=0

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1817 (Maybe?) The Highland Watch, Now the 42nd Regt or Royal Highlanders from “Neil Gow and Sons” on page 1:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)

For the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Singing The Song:
https://youtu.be/M-SI8eTGVF4

1900: Wind That Shakes The Barley: From O’Neill (on Traditional Tune Archive):
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Wind_that_Shakes_the_Barley_(1)_(The)

1815: Largo’s Fairy Dance From Reverend Harrison's Manuscript:

https://www.village-music-project.org.uk/?page_id=508

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2021: Hop Pole, Shields Bar, St. Mary’s Hornpipe, Pegwhistle Barn are all from Iain Gelston’s New Book:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/iain-gelston/the-new-shields-garland/paperback/product-4dg4ev.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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1802: The Woodford Ship: William Litten’s Manuscript:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/Litten/Litten%20Info.html

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Season 5 Episode 16: Colclough Geoghegan, O’Farrell and Sky

Jeremy Kingsbury — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Colclough: Colclough’s Hornpipe, Rakes of Westmeath, Llewellyn
Burke Thumoth: Rakes of Westmeath
O’Farrell: Waterford’s Waltz, O’Farrell’s Hornpipe,
Gahagan: Gahagan’s Frisk, Humours of Westmeath, Ravencroft’s Fancy, The Chocolate Pot
William Dixon: How She Will Never Be Guided
Robert Riddell: How She’ll ne’er be guided
William Bingley: The Ash Grove (Llwyn On)
Wilson: Rakes of Westmeath
Francis O’Neill: Rakes of Westmeath
McFadyen: Rakes of Westmeath

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Pat Sky Video from North Carolina Television: https://youtu.be/7al1306eAFI

Pat Sky’s NYTimes Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/arts/music/patrick-sky-dead.html

Pat Sky’s Gofundme page (Organized by his wife Cathy so I assume any donations will help to support her and end of life expenses.)
https://gofund.me/7e80fef5

If you want to watch Peter Browne play some awesome tunes and have great story exchanges with Pat Sky about living with Seamus Ennis and Liam O’Flynn I highly recommend renting Browne’s Piper Sunday Appearance from the Southern California Uilleann Piper’s Club: It is Episode 31: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pipersunday/471232053
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pipersunday/

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1733: How She Will Never Be Guided From William Dixon:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1794: How She’ll Ne’er be guided: From Robert Riddell’s A Collection of Scotch, Galwegian and Border Tunes
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/riddell/riddell18.pdf

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Geoghegan’s Tutor is Available on Ross’s Music Page:
1746: Ravencroft’s Fancy From Geoghegan page 14)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1763 (ish): Ravenscroft’s Fancy From Robert Bremner’s Delightful Pocket Companion for the German Flute:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87754195

1746: Gahagan’s Frisk: From Geoghegan (page 11)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1746: The Chocolate Pot: From Geoghegan (page 21)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

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1746: The Humours of Westmeath: From Geoghegan (page 18)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/geoghegan.pdf

1746: Burk Thumoth’s Rakes of Westmeath from 12 English and 12 Irish Airs: (also printed by Simpson)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90419969
https://archive.org/details/imslp-english-and-12-irish-airs-with-variations-thumoth-burke/page/n35/mode/2up

1840: Rakes of Westmeath, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

1801: Rakes of Westmeath from John McFadyen (James Aird books):
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n17/mode/2up?view=theater

1816: Rakes of Westmeath From Wilson’s A Companion to the Ball Room: (page 30)
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Companion_to_the_Ball_Room_(Wilson%2C_Thomas)

1900: Rakes of Westmeath From Francis O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Rakes_of_Westmeath_(1)_(The)

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1800ish: O’Farrell’s Hornpipe Can be found in his Tutor:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

1808ish: Waterford Waltz from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion Volume IV:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.4/ofpc.4_table.html

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1840: Colclough’s Hornpipe, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

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1804: The Ash Grove/Llwyn On From William Bingley’s North Wales: Including its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs, and Some Sketches of its Natural History… https://books.google.tg/books?id=tp3kAAAAMAAJ&hl=fr&pg=PA336-IA7#v=onepage&q&f=false

1840: Llewellyn A Favorite Welch Air, From Colclough’s Tutor for the Irish Union Pipes (page 19)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/colclough-tunes.pdf

I Listened to Pat Sky’s Recording of Tommy Reck an Amazon Music, I think it is likely you can find it on other places as well:
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B000S5590I?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&trackAsin=B000S3P194
The Album is called: Tommy Reck: Irish Piper The Stone in the Field

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Season 5 Episode 15: John Murphy’s Collection & Have a Care of Her Johnny

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sun, 23 May 2021 15:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
William Dixon: Have a Care of Her Johnny
Daniel Dow: Sandy Gow’s Three Pints
John Machlachlan: Sandy Gow’s Three Pints
O’Farrell: The Douraling, The Gobbyo,
Murphy: Kate Martin, Mrs. Boswell’s Jigg, That’s My Way
Edward Bunting: The Beardless Boy
John Rook: Kate Kearney

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Here is a link to one of Keith Sanger’s recent articles on Fitzmaurice and John Murphy:
https://bagpipe.news/2019/10/13/irish-pipers-and-scotland/

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1810: Murphy: Mrs. Boswell’s Jigg, Kate Martin and That’s My Way All come from: A collection of Irish airs and jiggs with variations adapted for the piano forte, violin & violoncello
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en

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Murphy: Miss Boswell’s Jigg

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Murphy’s Kate Martin:

1796: Edward Bunting’s The Beardless Boy:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105814497
Simon Hasn’t done Beardless boy yet and I couldn’t find notes in Bunting’s Archive to look at.

1840: John Rook’s Kate Kearny:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/231.htm

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https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-john-rook-manuscript?fbclid=IwAR1PcBavQn852CZT7hGEBkqJfN-vh5c0vtNbahLPO-JDK8T2BwCmGAGFOco

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Murphy: That’s My Way (Page 39)

1806: O’Farrell: The Gobbyo
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779858

1806: O’Farrell’s The Douraling:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779918

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1733: William Dixon’s Have a Care of Her Johnny

1778: Daniel Dow’s Sandy Gow’s Three Pints (page 17) A Collection of Ancient Scots Music for the violin, harpsichord or German flute: Never before printed consisting of ports, salutations, marches and pibrachs & c.
https://www.wirestrungharp.com/library/daniel_dow/

Keith Sanger write up on Dow: https://www.wirestrungharp.com/library/daniel_dow_reid/

1850s : MacLachlan’s Sandy Gow’s Three Pints:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105010347

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Season 5 Episode 14: Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes No. 1 with Tune from Chris Norman and David Greenberg

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 15 May 2021 23:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Fitzmaurice: A Connaught Air, Spatter the Dew, Moggy Will you Come Again, Billy O’Rourke.
Francis O’Neill: Spatter the Dew
Goodman: Spatter the Dew
Roche: Spatter the Dew
William Vickers: Why Did you Promise to Marry?
Bruce and Stoke: Jockey up in the Hayloft
William Dixon: Hacky Honey
From David Greenberg and Chris Norman: a John Reid Piece, Garb of the old Gaul and Hacky Honey

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Big Thank You 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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1828: From Donald MacDonald: Mrs. McLeod of Raasay:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105876170

1805-1808ish : Most of the Tunes Come From Fitzmaurice’s New Collection of Irish Tunes:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP2&printsec=frontcover

1808 Fitzmaurice: “A Connaught Air” Second Tune is Spatter the Dew

1860s Goodman’s Spatter the Dew:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=85&z=994.0834%2C1127.9524%2C7154.6496%2C2584.8765

1907: Francis O’Neill’s Spatter the Dew. Apologies for not linking to an archive copy:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Spatter_the_Dew_(2)

1912: Spatter the Dew (Different tune and a Reel) Roche, Couldn’t find it online apart from TTA:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Spatter_the_Dew_(1)

1808: Fitzmaurice’s Moggy Will you Come again with Variations, remind me of the “Kitchen Piping” of the nineties and early 00s, specifically a mystery tune on GHB, I think possibly it is a tune my buddy Shane Ausprey was working on, but if you know what it is let me know!

1808: Fitzmaurice’s Billy O’Rourke has a couple Concordances:

1770: William Vickers MSS: Why Did You Promise to Marry?
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0307100.jpg

1882: Bruce and Stoke: Jockey up in the Hayloft From Northumbrian Minstrelsy (page 147 [166 of PDF])
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Northumbrian_Minstrelsy/ZJhNAQAAMAAJ?hl=en

1733: William Dixon’s Hacky Honey
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

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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Season 5 Episode 12 Under Named GHB Tunes From James Aird and Guest Track from Brìghde Chaimbeul

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sun, 02 May 2021 04:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
James Aird: Three 6/8s called North Highland Reel, Three Tunes called Highland Dance, A skye Dance, three tunes called “A Jig”, A Western Isle Air.
Robert Miller: Two Highland Dances one Western Highland Dance and a Highland Jigg from Ross’s Music Page and North Highland Jigg (9/8) From Keith Sanger
Reverend R Harrison: Western Isles Air
My “Setting”: Braes of Mellinish

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All the James Aird Tunes come from the 1801 Publication of Volume 5
Miller Tunes Are Mostly from 1820, except the 9/8 North Highland Jigg, which is from 1838

The First Friday of May will be another Band Camp Friday, which is a great day to buy some music from musicians that have been on the show, or my own album!

My Album: Oyster Wives Rant:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes
Chris McMullan:
https://chrismcmullan.bandcamp.com/album/uilleann-tales
Hamish Napier:
https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/
Tim MacDonald:
https://tsmacdonald.bandcamp.com/releases
Nicholas Brown:
https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases
Donald Lindsay:
https://goodenergy.bandcamp.com/
Jarlath Henderson:
https://jarlathhenderson.bandcamp.com/
Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson:
https://innojar.bandcamp.com/releases
Blackie O’Connell will be on the show eventually:
https://blackieoconnellcyrilodonoghue.bandcamp.com/

Brìghde Chaimbeul
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/track/turf-lodge-airds-jig
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From James Aird, a collection of three 6/8s that work as a set he calls, “North Highland Reel” tunes 185, 186 and 187
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n78/mode/1up

Miller Highland MS (From Ross’s Music Page Millar File 3 Tune No. 132): Highland Dance
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millarhighland3.pdf

Which Geoff also so as a connection to Braes of Mellinish: From William Donaldson’s Book
https://ceolsean.net/content/B2B/B2B_TOC.html

I couldn’t handle Donaldson’s Setting, but William Gunn’s Setting was familiar enough to me that I recognized it from my own playing. I believe I got it off of Roddy MacLeod’s performance on the Piping Centre Recital Series: Piping Centre 1997 Recital Series Vol. 4 by Ian Duncan, Roddy MacLeod thanks to Brian May for helping me make the connection!
Here is William Gunn’s Setting:
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2027a.pdf

From The Same Page of Miller’s Highland MSS You will see “Highland Dance” tune 131. Which the Porridge men Recorded as “Clisham” a mountain on Harris.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millarhighland3.pdf

This is the David Allan Painting I was Referencing with the Piper’s Drones sticking out from him like mine were when I switched arms to try and reach the High B.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/21917/highland-dance

James Aird also has “Clisham” listed as “A Highland Dance”, (Tune 195)
The other “A Highland Dances Are quite familiar, The 6/8 (Tune 194) I’m sure I have heard. Tune 196 I think I have played on the podcast before from Donald MacDonald or Angus MacKay but can’t recall the title.
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n81/mode/1up

Back to the Highland Miller MSS Page: Tune 134 is Called “Highland Jigg”
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millarhighland3.pdf

I asked Keith Sanger for a couple tunes from His Miller Archive, and include this one, “North Highland Jigg Tune 60. I don’t have the notes for this to share but I’ll be doing a tutorial on Patreon if you want to hear it played slower for ease of learning.

Here is a 9/8 “A Jig” (tune 192) from James Aird to pair with Miller’s
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n80/mode/1up?view=theater

From James Aird A Western Isle Air (Tune No157)
https://archive.org/stream/selectionofscotc00rugg#page/n68/mode/1up

Reverend Harrison’s Western Isles Air. From Cumbria around 1815 is nearly identical to Aird.
http://richardrobinson.tunebook.org.uk/tunes/9/04/9045.html
Or here:
https://www.village-music-project.org.uk/?page_id=508

Miller transposed this tune for Pipes quite differently from how I did, He Called it West Highland Dance (tune No. 133)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/millarhighland3.pdf

Aird’s A Skye Dance (No. 183) and “A Jig” (no. 184)
https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc00rugg/page/n77/mode/1up?view=theater

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

And Finally! 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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Season 5 Episode 11 Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Conclusion

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:00:00 -0400

O’Farrell: Jackson’s Lake, Maids in the Morning, Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine
Broadside: The Price of My Pig
Goodman: Jackson Over the Water
Jackson: Jackson Over the Water, Humours to Listivain, Maids in the Morning, Jackson’s Turret, Bouner Bougher
Dixon: Cut and Dry Dolly New Way
Sutherland: Jackson’s Lake

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R.D. Cannon, English Bagpipe Music:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4521898

John Burgess Playing his Walking Cane:
https://youtu.be/wox5DDwDpXg

Hugh Cheape’s Books:
Bagpipes: A National Collection of A National Instrument
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bagpipes/pKMIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en

Tartan: The Highland Habit
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tartan/uZ5nAAAAMAAJ?hl=en

The First Friday of May will be another Band Camp Friday, which is a great day to buy some music from musicians that have been on the show, or my own album!

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1733: William Dixon Cut and Dry Dolly New Way:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1774: Jackson’s Over The Water:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

1760-80: Sutherland’s Jackson’s Lake
You can Mind Sutherland’s Manuscript on Ross’s Music Page, Jackson’s Lake is on page 81.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

1800: O’Farrell’s Jackson’s Lake:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

1860s: Goodman’s Jackson’s Over the Water:
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-two#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=169&z=30.1152%2C670.7016%2C8901.5288%2C3216

1774: Jackson’s Maids in the Morning:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

1806: O’Farrell’s Maids in the Morning:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780878

1774: Jackson’s Setting for Jackson’s Turret:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

1774: Jackson’s Bouner Bougher:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

1806: O’Farrell’s Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780290

Nineteenth Century: Broadside of The Price of My Pig:
https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/1967-bs

1774: Jackson’s Humours of Listivain:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

Apologies for my singing accent and likely mispronunciations, here is a much better version of Price of the Pig being sung by Tim Lyons:
https://youtu.be/usr23rnvbrY

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Season 5 Episode 09 Pinched Notes On Highland Pipes and Tunes

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
Trad: (Feels absurd to use “trad” on this podcast as a source, these are both just versions I’m playing from memory: When the King Enjoys His Own Again, Auld Lang Syne, A conversation with Death.
Matt Seattle: Green Brackin, Small Drink Won’t Comfort Me
William Dixon: Cock on the Midden
James Aird: The Feathers, Dribbles of Brandy, Grace’s Farewell
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Thanks to Bob Cameron for Cluing me into the High Notes, and Abe Zettek for directing me to Sutherland’s fingering chart to achieve them.

On Ross's Music Page you can look through Sutherland's Manuscript, and Read Ross's write up about Sutherlands High notes, but I couldn't find the actual fingering chart, if/when I hear back from Ross I'll update the show notes here:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html

Peter Bellamy’s Version of Conversation with Death:
https://youtu.be/jhC3-yqndlo

Matt Seattle’s Green Bracken and Small Drink Won’t Comfort Me: these tunes are both in Seattle’s Over the Hills and Far Away
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/over-the-hills-and-far-away

James Aird’s Grace’s Farewell: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87707516

1848: William Gunn’s The Bride will be no more wi her Mother:
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book05/Book05%2019.pdf
Index Willam Gunn’s Collection here:
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Gunn_TOC.html

William Dixon: Cock on the Midden
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

James Aird: The Feathers
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87704775

James Aird: Dribbles of Brandy:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87704763

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S5E08 One Year Anniversary from the Reboot! And my new Koehler & Quinn Chanter plays loads of O’Farrell tunes

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
William Dixon: Cuddy Claw’d Her
O’Farrell: Blush of Aurora, St. Patrick’s Day, Princess Royal (Air by Carolan), Hen’s Concert, Carolan’s Farewell to Music, Fall of Paris, Quck-Step, Gobyo,The Happy Mistake, Pay the Reckoning, Carolan’s Concerto
Hibernian Muse: St. Patrick’s Day
Ennis: Bucks of Oranmore

Order:

1806: O’Farrell’s Quick Step: https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779906

1806: O’Farrell’s Gobyo:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779858

1806: O’Farrell’s Hen’s Concert:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780134

1806: O’Farrell’s Carolan’s Concerto:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779822

1810ish:O’Farrell’s Air by Carolan (Princess Royal)
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.4/ofpc.4_plus/084proy.pdf

1799ish: O’Farrell’s Carolan’s Farewell to Music From the National Tutor:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_plus/05cfm.pdf

1806: O’Farrell’s Carolan’s Farewell to Music:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780122

1733: William Dixon’s Cuddy Claw’d Her: from Matt Seattle’s publication:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1810ish: O’Farrell’s Blush of Aurora:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.4/ofpc.4_plus/008blush.pdf
You can Also Download Volume 4 Here on Ross’s Music Page to Find Air By Carolan, and Blush of Aurora:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc4.pdf

1787: Hibernian Muse’s St. Patrick’s Day
https://archive.org/details/imslp-hibernian-muse-a-collection-of-irish-airs-various/page/n20/mode/1up

1806: O’Farrell’s St. Patrick’s Day:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779750

1806: O’Farrell’s The Happy Mistake:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779846

1806: O’Farrell’s Pay the Reckoning:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779834

1806: O’Farrell’s Fall of Paris
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779894

Seamus Ennis’s Bucks of Oranmore: I’m clearly not playing note for note, and I looked at some generic music on Tunearch, so I’m playing the parts in the order most folks do rather than how Ennis does.
https://youtu.be/GrXsmfmqcFA

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Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0500

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

My First Album is out! You Can Buy it here:
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes

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Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
Anderson: Mail Coach
Jackson: The Figure 3, The Cossey Jig, Pither in Enough
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Punch Bowl
Angus MacKay: The Braes of Tullymet
William Dixon: Hit her between the legs
Sutherland MS: Whip her and Gird Her

Be Sure to Check out Oyster Wives Rant Released on Bandcamp today!

https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes

And I’ll be Doing a bit of a get tother at 7 PM US Central time on Facebook:
https://fb.me/e/3niVO7YJp

It is Bandcamp Friday, Here are links to all the musician’s pages that have contributed to the podcast in the past year:
Hamish Napier:
https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/
Tim MacDonald:
https://tsmacdonald.bandcamp.com/releases
Nicholas Brown:
https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/releases
Donald Lindsay:
https://goodenergy.bandcamp.com/
Jarlath Henderson:
https://jarlathhenderson.bandcamp.com/
Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson:
https://innojar.bandcamp.com/releases
Blackie O’Connell will be on the show shortly:
https://blackieoconnellcyrilodonoghue.bandcamp.com/

I played O’Farrell’s Setting for Coosey’s Jig on Season 4 Episode 5 if you’d like to listen:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s4e5

The Art for this episode comes from Rosslyn Chapel’s own website:
https://www.rosslynchapel.com/visit/things-to-do/explore-the-carvings/

1820s: Anderson’s Mail Coach from Anderson's pocket companion of the most approved Highland strathspeys, country dances, &c. for the German flute, fife, hautboy, & violin

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105006453
I first played and discussed Hit Her Between the legs on this episode:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s4e22
For a discussion of bawdy tunes in general check out:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/s4e28

1733: I am first Playing William Dixon’s Setting for Hit her Between the Legs from Matt Seattle’s book:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1734: For Dummond Castle’s setting for Whip her and Gerd Her Download this file hosted by Ross’s Music Page:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

1774: Unfortunately Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes is not available online as far as I know, but You can read it from the ABC notation on The Cape Irish site courtesy of Mr. Black:
The Settings for Cossey’s Jig, Pither in Enough and The Figure of Three can be found here:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html

1808: O’Farrell’s Setting for Jackson’s Punch Bowl (The Figure of Three) comes from the third volume, which is not online, easily (you can download it from Ross’s Music Page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf And you can see the ABC courtesy of the Cape Irish Site:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.3/ofpc.3_table.html

1806: O’Farrel’s setting for “Jackson’s Maid at the Fair” (Pither in Enough)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780482

1854: Angus MacKay’s The Braes of Tullymet:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007047

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Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
William Dixon: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels

To Sign Up for the Livestream for the Album Launch follow this link. At 7pm Friday February 5th I’m going to go live, chatting with people, listening to some tracks, playing some tunes, drinking some whisky.
https://fb.me/e/3niVO7YJp

To Read Mary Anne Hanway’s Letters You can find the book on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/journeytohighlan00hanw
The Passage about Roslin Castle begins on page 68:
The Passage about Bagpipers at dinner begins on page 132:
“they love dancing to excess, and are the best country-dancers I ever saw, and keep it up (as the phrase is) for hours together, with a life, vivactiy and spirit, of which you can have no conception. In many houses, they still retain the ancienty custom of the pipers playing all the time the company are at dinner, on his horrid bagpipes; this is to me more dreadful, than the grunting of pigs, the screaming of owls, and the squalling of cats. All these creatures in a concert would be to my ears pleasing, compared to that discordant instrument to which I have a natural antipathy." (132-133)

The Cover Art is a Paul Sandby, Painting “Roslin Castle, Midlothian” from around the time Mary Anne Hanway visited:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13045

(1733) William Dixon’s Saw Ye Never a Bonny Lass From Matt Seattle’s publication:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition
(1770) William Vickers Kiss’d her under the Coverlet: (You can get this setting in Matt’s book, or look at the original on Farne, Just type Coverlet into the search and it should come up, Farne can be a bit picky though, and I can never get a stable link to copy in here:
http://www.farnearchive.com/

(1805) Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle and Lose the Belt both in: Fitzmaurice's New Collection of Irish Tunes. Adapted for the Piano Forte, Union Pipe, Flute,&Violin:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=overview

(1853) Hamilton’s Universal Tune-book setting for The Berlin Waltz
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94521216

(1746) William McGibbon’s Setting for Rosline Castle
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Scots_Tunes_(McGibbon%2C_William)

Angus MacKay’s Roslin Castle from The Piper’s Assistant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007146

(1828) Donald MacDonald’s Setting for Roslin Castle and Macfarlane’s Lilt:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682715

(1806) O’Farrell’s Pay the Reckoning (bobing for eels/ Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87779834

(1880s) James Manson (By way of David Glen) The Roslin Picnic:
https://ceolsean.net/content/EdinColl/EdinColl_TOC.html

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S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
James Aird: Irish Hautboy
Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton

Big thanks to Jarlath Hendersond and Innes Watson for letting me play a track off their stellar album A Moment in Time. You can buy it now on Bandcamp:
https://innojar.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-in-time-2

Paul Anderson is a remarkably talented Fiddler that has published many albums that you can stream or purchase. You can check out his website Here:
https://www.paulandersonscottishfiddler.com/home

I highly recommend following him on Facebook as he has been doing a great “Live from the Lounge” series the entire Pandemic:
https://www.facebook.com/paul.anderson.3591

And his Youtube account is host to a plethora of Historic Fiddle tunes, often played on the Fiddle of the person that wrote or printed the tune:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC44-9TrxIewyzCoz8wKcxQA

I believe I was helped tremendously by watching the Royal Scottish Country Dancers on mute.
https://youtu.be/lV-0JQzUXKM

The William Lamb articles I read can be found here:
The Strathspey in Scottish Music: On Its origins and Uneasy Relationship with the Highland Bagpipes, seems to be a abbreviated version of the paper I quote from:
https://www.academia.edu/29913697/The_Strathspey_in_Scottish_Music_On_Its_Origins_and_Uneasy_Relationship_with_the_Highland_Bagpipes?source=swp_share

Reeling in the Strathspey: The Origins of Scotland’s National Music is the paper I quoted from.
https://www.academia.edu/4007917/Reeling_in_the_Strathspey_The_Origins_of_Scotlands_National_Music?source=swp_share

James Aird’s The Irish Hautboy: I’ll talk about this tune in greater detail in a future episode, but here is the link to the notes.
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87706892

Jarlath Henderson agreed to let me include his Strathspey set from his stellar album with Innes Watson, A Moment in Time: You can Buy it on Bandcamp
https://innojar.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-in-time-2

The Set is track 2 on the album:
Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)

O’Farrell’s Setting for Roys Wife of Aldivalock (supposedly close kin to Kilt is my delight)
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

O’Farrell’s Setting for Rothemurchus’s Rant
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofnim/ofnim_table.html

Paul Anderson Graciously agreed to let me play his set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRr8jpaUos&feature=youtu.be
It is: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
Paul pointed out the Tune Is better known in Irish tradition as Graf Spee, and also that it was Robert Burns’ favorite fiddle tune, and he set lyrics of Lassie with the lint white locks to it.

Robert Bremner’s Rothemurches Rant, from 1757 collection of Scots Reels
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002757

John Glen put The Fairy Dance and Dogs Bite Chapmen on the Same page of his book https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002020

Sutherland’s Setting for Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding are on the same PDF available thanks to Ross’s Music page on page 5 and 6 of the PDF respectively:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-81-120.pdf

O’Farrell’s Setting for the Ewe with the Crooked Horn:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781202

George McLennan’s The Little Cascade is From Highland Bagpipe Music by George S. McLennan (1884): You can download it from CEOL Sean:
https://ceolsean.net/content/McLennan/Book02/Book02%2016.pdf

1788, Neil Gow “A Second Collection of Strathspey, Reels, & C…”
Lady Baird’s Strathspey (page 4)
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Second_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels,_etc._(Gow,_Niel)#IMSLP338815

Drummond Castle Manuscript (1734) the Setting for Allastor is on the 19th page of this PDF hosted by Ross’s Music Page:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

Joseph Dales, (ca. 1800) Selection of The Most Favorite Country Dances and Reels
Jenny Sutton (page 10)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Dale%27s_Selection_of_the_Most_Favorite_Country_Dances_and_Reels_(Dale,_Joseph)#IMSLP178714

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S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 04:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke
John Parry: Nos Calan
Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning
My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy
Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)
Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)

Be Sure to Head over to Ryan Kirk’s Youtube Channel to catch some stellar tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jY3tVICOSthOfESS8MjNA

Here’s a Link to the Newgrange Winter Solstice Livestream which will begin shortly after this episode is posted and should run through till the Solstice.
https://livestream.com/accounts/285324/events/9440165/player

You can check out photos of past Solstices from Mayeshowe at the below link:
http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/

If you want more Christmas Bagpipe Carols Check out Charlie Rutan’s Christmas Bagpipe Series on Facebook: They are a great bit of history and music, well worth a watch!
https://www.facebook.com/Christmas-Bagpipes-101281248507906

1808 O’Farrell: The Black Joke With Variations:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780734

1770s? James Aird: Bodachan a garidh
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87706527
1828: Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh Jolly Old Gardner
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682627

1808 O’Farrell: Unfortunately Lewelynn and A Piper O’er the Meadows Straying are both from the O’Farrell Pocketbook companion Volume 3 that I can’t link to easily. You can download the PDF off Ross’s Music Page, or look at the Cape Irish ABC notation Settings:
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.3/ofpc.3_table.html

1781 John Parry: Nos Calan
https://viewer.library.wales/4675640#?c=&m=&s=&cv=17&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F4675640%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=-213%2C458%2C4871%2C3692

Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning: Matt just posted his setting for the tune that I am Riffing on into the Discussions on the LBPS forum on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LBPSGroup/?multi_permalinks=4233880116629245&notif_id=1607973793745357&notif_t=group_highlights&ref=notif

1820ish Robert Topliff: It bares a passing resemblance to this rather busy Nineteenth Century Setting From Robert Topliff:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104483151

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S4E35: Bremner Part 3: Bremner’s Guitar Tutor with Special Thanks to Ryan Kirk and Rob Turner

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:00:00 -0500

Tunes:

Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.
William McGibbon: Mill Mill O, Willie Was a Wanton Wag
James Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
Miscellaneous: Clare Dragoons, Braes a Mar

Big Thanks To Ryan Kirk for the performance and write up. Head over to the Facebook page to tell him thanks!

Thanks to Rob Turner for his Playing of James Oswald’s Burlesque on Black Joke. You can watch his youtube upoload of the tune, along with some stellar background information. https://youtu.be/vHFwsYbvZ-A

As I said in the episode, be sure to check out the rest of his music on his Youtube channel: fiauto
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMNv7YozytBYTZHjyMGxO1A

Bremner’s Guitar Tutorial settings for, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, Stadholders Minuet, and Black Joke:
http://guitar-repertoire.com/musicalia/bremner-r-instructions-for-the-guitar-pdf/

Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94598288

O’Farrell’s The Black Joke with Variations:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780734

McGibbon’s Willy was a Wanton Wag:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870384

Clare Dragoons: I just took off The Session
https://thesession.org/tunes/777

But you might be entertained by this bizarre “Fennian War Echoes” Pamphlet with the Song:
https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll1/id/897

If you haven’t listened to The Dollop Episode about the Fenian Raids, it’s a pretty good laugh:
https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/106---the-fenian-raids

McGibbon’s Mill Mill O:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105869955

Here Is Ryan's Excellent write up if you'd like to see it as written:

English Guitar Notes:
Robert Bremner’s Instructions for the Guitar is a short tutor book containing a brief overview of the instrument and a small collection of popular English and Scottish tunes. The instrument described within is not what most people today would picture when they hear guitar. Instead of the six stringed Romantic or Spanish guitar - the direct ancestor to today’s classical and steel stringed instruments - the instrument described is what is now known as an English or Scottish guitar. This instrument had six courses of strings, but was a smaller teardrop shaped instrument strung with metal wire and tuned in open tunings. It is the ancestor to and most closely resembles the modern cittern or German waldzither. With its early wire strings and open tunings it was less suited to the more harmonically complex and delicate music played on the gut strung Spanish instrument. Nevertheless, it enjoyed widespread use as an instrument for popular and folk music.

The ‘Instructions’ portion of the text is relatively brief. It explains the tuning of the instrument (an open C major chord) and a few rudimentary techniques. Interestingly it describes a simple strumming technique and also suggests an alternating plucking with the thumb and forefinger, a common technique on the lute and other early stringed instruments now known as ‘thumb under’ that approximates the effect of a plectrum.

The musical selections themselves are mostly presented in simple settings. The music is provided in staff notation, rather than the tablature more commonly used for stringed instruments of the era. All of the music is transposed to C to fit the open chord tuning of the instrument. The texture is simple, mostly simple monophonic melody line with the odd open string drone or strummed open string chord for emphasis, when harmonically appropriate. In all but a few instances the music only calls on the player to strike notes on immediately adjacent strings, most often in melodic parallel thirds or a melody over an open drone string. There is none of the counterpoint, moving basslines, or harmonic figuration that is typical of Baroque or Romantic guitar repertoire. These factors along with the popular tunes suggests to me that the music was intended for an amateur audience and intended to be strummed as much as plucked. One could view the tutor as analogous to modern commercial ukulele books full of popular and folk tunes in simple arrangements.

The various Moorish tunes are interesting and of particular note. They are all extremely short and simple with a strong pastoral sound of open ringing intervals evocative of hunting horns and reveilles, perhaps intended to conjure the image of the trumpets popularly associated with the military bands of the Ottoman Empire.

In light of the above notes on the instrument itself, I have played the selected tunes on a modern steel string acoustic guitar, with a mix of pick and thumb and forefinger as appropriate.
Ryan Kirk, Nova Scotia Canada (thanks again Ryan!)

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S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:00:00 -0500

S4 Bandamp Friday Reminder
Tunes: Straight & Skillern: The Nabob

Quick late reminder that you should buy people’s music on Bandcamp today! Friday December 4th.

You can Check out my favorite Bandcamp purchases by looking at my profile. (Note I don’t do most of my listening on Bandcamp so it is a pretty small list that has really only started growing with the Bandcamp Friday promotions.)
https://bandcamp.com/wetootwaag

Specifically the Following artists have been kind enough to share music recently on the Podcast, so Please Check them out:

Nicholas Brown’s awesome album of James Aird and O’Farrell tunes on an eighteenth century Irish Bagpipe:
https://nicolasbrown.bandcamp.com/album/good-enough-music-for-them-who-love-it

Donald Lindsay’s The History of Sleep. Paired with Richard Youngs on Guitar and Donald on a double octave chanter of his design this is a powerful album to listen to and think.
https://goodenergy.bandcamp.com/album/history-of-sleep

And finally Hamish Napier’s stellar new offering The Woods, which was up for several well deserved awards this years.
https://hamishnapier.bandcamp.com/album/the-woods

1775 Straight and Skillern’s the Nabob: If you want to have a go at Nabob you can find it here: (it is the 99th tune in the book).
https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)

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S4 E32 Robert Bremner Part 1: Vibratto, Church Music, Allan Ramsay and William McGibbon

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
Bremner: Elgin, Aberdeen Or St. Paul’s, Grant’s Rant, The Carle Came over the Craft, Blue Britches, Miss Blair’s Reel, Mary Scott, Blue Britches, Cuzzle Together.
McGibbon: She Rose and Let me in, Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl
Daniel Wright: She Rose and let me in

Tune Order:
Elgin… Aberdeen…Mary Scott…She Rose and Let me In….She Rose and Let me In…Cumbernauld House, Bottom of the Punch Bowl… Blue Britches, Oyster Wive’s Rant….The Carle Came o’er the Craft…Cuzzle Together… Miss Blair’s Reel

Cover Art is a Receipt from Robert Bremner’s Shop in London courtesy of the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1544287001

Most of my Written Sources:

1750s To Read Bremner’s Short Treatise on Music:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87722485

Robert Bremner, “Some Thoughts on the Performance of Concert Music” Early Music (Vol. 7, No. 1. 1979) pp. 48-57.

I was quite thankful to use the Grove Music Online entries on William McGibbon and Robert Bremner, unfortunately I can only find links through my University Library, which will do you no good.

Some good information from the Church of Scotland website on the Monymusk Revival:
https://www.resourcingmission.org.uk/music/classical/landmarks-scottish-church-music-monymusk-revival

The Newspaper Article I read from was Quoted in The Scots Magazine from April, 1755 Issue beginning on page 189.

I found the relavent passage in the Google Books Edition on Page 341:
https://books.google.com/books?id=_lwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA341#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Magazine talks about the issue at length, but I was directed to it from this Website:
http://www.wgma.org.uk/Articles/NEScotland/article.htm

1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002999

1750s Bremner’s Elgin:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723589

1750s Bremner’s Aberdeen or St. Paul’s: (I found this setting after reading a much worse transcription, and I interpreted a note incorrectly, on 2 of the 3 parts, I did not go back to correct it….Robert Bremner would hate that his printed version was not even safe from change!)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723721

Pre 1762 Bremner and Ramsay’s Mary Scott:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/74516572

1720s. Daniel Wright, Aria Di Camera She Rose and Let me In:
https://archive.org/details/AriaDiCamera1727/page/n36/mode/1up

Pre 1762 She Rose and Let me In from McGibbon, Bremner’s setting:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003571

Pre 1762 McGibbon’s setting of Cumbernauld House:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105869658

Pre 1762 McGibbon’s setting of Bottom of the Punch Bowl:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105869526

Bremner’s Blue Britches:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003032

Bremner’s Oyster Wive’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175

Bremner’s The Carle he Came O’er the Craft:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002625

Bremner’s Cuzle Together:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003230

Bremner’s Miss Blair’s Reel:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002350

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Happy International Uilleann Piping Day!

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

Tunes:
Charles and Samuel Thompson: Trip to Paris, The Breast Knot

Charles and Samuel Thompson 24 Country Dances for the Year 1771:
https://imslp.org/wiki/24_Country_Dances_for_the_Year_1771_(Various)

Check out Jimmy’s Gift presented by the Celitc Piper’s Club on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/ENzIxbMEo2c
Or via the Facebook Event for More details:
https://fb.me/e/3nMzSeBcY

You can watch my Country Dance Presentation: “Many Thanks for your Country Dance Book”~John Askin, 1778. Concert and Chat
on Youtube here:
https://youtu.be/z3GiS3lFReU

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https://www.facebook.com/NAVCVoyageurs/videos/2796265654027785/

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S4E30: John Walsh's 1750 Caledonia Country Dances With Hare in the Corn and other tunes

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:00:00 -0400

Matt Seattle: Lady McIntosh’s Reel of O’er the Hills For A’ That
Walsh: Hare in the Corn, My Ain Kind Deary, Turnbridge Frisk, Country Bumkin
James Aird, Bab at the Bowster
O’Farrell: Hare in the Corn, My ain kind Deary, “Handle’s Minuett”

Link to Archive.org Copy of Frank Kidson, “Handel’s Publisher, John Walsh, His Successors, and Contemporaries” The Musical Quarterly Vol 6 no. 3 (1920, pp. 430-450)

https://archive.org/stream/jstor-737971/737971_djvu.txt

Here is a Link to the Open University Course:
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/music-and-its-media/content-section-0?intro=1

O’Farrell’s “Handle’s Minuett”
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780674

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S4 E28: Hey Johnny Cock up thy Beaver and A brief History of Slang

Jeremy Kingsbury — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Tunes:
John Playford: Johnny Cock thy Beaver
O’Carolan: Cock up thy Beaver Variations
Dixon: Watty’s Away
Oswald: Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver
Robert Bremner: Scots Bonnet
O’Farrell: The Blue Bonnett
A.L. Lloyd: The Bonny Black Hare

Cover Art from David Allan’s Lead Processing at Leadhills: Weighing the Lead Bars from the 1780s showing a Blue Bonnet and a Cocked hat.
Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/99127/lead-processing-leadhills-weighing-lead-bars

1686: John Playford, Dancing Master rendition of Johnny Cock thy Beaver here:
https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Dance/images/Play1138.gif
This whole database was helpful:
https://www.cdss.org/elibrary/dancing-master/Index.htm

1900: I would not have known to look here were it not for John Glen’s monumental work on early Scottish melodies, if you hadn’t noticed it is Glen’s collection that makes up much of the archival copies of these texts I rely on:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91349758

<1738 : O’Carolan’s Setting for Variations came likely from Donal O'Sullivan's work of tunes actually composed by Turlough O’Carolan (b.1670-d.1738) I got the transcription (and apparently also a key change) on Vince Brennan’s remarkable website, with ABC copies of all the tunes:
http://www.oldmusicproject.com/occ/tunes.html

1733: William Dixon’s Watty’s Away:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

1750ish: James Oswald’s Setting for Johnny Cock-up thy Beaver:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94599108

1792: Scots Musical Museum (Robert Burns Song)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87798244

1757: Bremner’s Setting for Scots Bonnet:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002603

1807-1810: O’Farrell’s setting of The Blue Bonnett:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf It is tune 17 on the PDF

You can read through the fascinating discussion of Beaver and links to many newspaper articles from the early 20th century here on the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange forum: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/503590

June 1922: Missouri Newspaper: Cambridge Students Pride themselves on their whiskers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066316/1922-06-26/ed-1/seq-4/#words=%22yelling%2Bbeaver%22
October 1922: Washington Newspaper: King George may need to shave
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-59/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22
December 1922 Washington Newspaper: Beaver near extinction because of the Beaver Game:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-12-03/ed-1/seq-39/#words=%22out%2Bbeaver%22

“Looking For Whiskers
Bearded men find themselves unwontedly popular at Cambridge just now. They are gravely or hilariously saluted by undergraduates with cries of ‘Beaver!’ This is part of a game which the young wits of the University have devised in which pointes are scored by the player who first sights a bearded person.
From Gloucester Citizen, Gloucester, England, Wednesday May 17, 1922 Volume 47, 115

From the Evening Telegraph (Dundee, Scotland) Tuesday october 3, 1922 Day By Day
“There is absolutely no truth in the story that when a Royal figure wearing a beard entered a Cambridge function the undergraduates rose to their feet as one and shouted, ‘Royal beaver game, set, match.”

“When Aussies wore Whiskers from Thursday Aug 2, 1934 Gloucester Citizen, talks about men wearing beards being scorned by barbers, and harassed on the street by cries of Beaver.

Jan 20, 1941 Gloucester Citizen, “Ban on ‘Hitler’ Moustache but ‘Beavers’ are Popular
Discusses how beards fell out of fashion, but are back in for military personnel after WWII.

You can see the “Beaver!” Limerick printed here in the Wordsworth Book of Limericks:
https://archive.org/details/wordsworthbookof0000unse/page/324/mode/1up?

You can see several of the Mid-19th Century Bonny Black Hare Broadsides here, Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries:
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/title/Bonny%20black%20hare

Interesting discussion of Bonny Black Hare from AL Lloyd and others that popularized singing it during the British Folk Revival:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thebonnyblackhare.html

I have lost several hours to Grosse’s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402-images.html

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S4 E24: Descriptive Pieces The Irish Fox Hunt, Oscar and Malvina, The Desperate Battle and The Stool of Repentance

Jeremy Kingsbury — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:30:00 -0400

Tunes:
O’Farrell: Oscar and Malvina, Irish Fox Hunt
Piobaireachd: The Desperate Battle
Dixon: The Stool of Repentance
Bremner: Wright’s Rant
Gunn: The Piper’s Son

O’Farrell’s Irish Fox Hunt:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781370

If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend watching this clip of Liam O’Flynn talking about and playing the Fox Chase:
https://youtu.be/EQU84O8xZlE

O’Farrell’s Oscar & Malvina Set for the Pipes:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781238

Angus MacKay’s Manuscript for The Desperate Battle of the Birds, This isn’t really the version I played, but I learned it then forgot it then played it from Kilberry’s Ceol Mor, but I can’t really link to that.
http://www.ceolsean.net/docs/AM%20titles/Desperate%20Battle%20of%20the%20Birds.pdf

William Dixon’s The Stool of Repentance:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/the-master-piper-new-edition

Bremner’s Setting for Wright’s Rant:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003307

Gunn’s Setting for the Piper’s Son:
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2021.pdf

The David Allan Painting is the property of the National Galleries of Scotland, but also appears to have a Creative Commons tag on it. Anyway you can look at a very high resolution of the painting here:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8323/black-stool-stool-repentance

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