>This is a nice wee tune, but it did not have a B part - anyone know it? > >X:318 >T:Gaelic Air >D:Wick S.C.D., The Sound of the North (1970) >O:Scotland >Z:Nigel Gatherer >L:1/8 >M:4/4 >K:A mixolydian >e|A>AAB e2 dB|A2 GA BAAB|d>dde d2 BA|G>GGA GE D>E| >GGGG g2 g>f|edeg edBd|e2 a>g e2 d>B|A2 e>d BAA:|
I've encountered that one before - Patrick MacDonald maybe? - and I don't think it's got a second part. It's "My Braw Highland Laddie" in Kerr's volume 1 p.47 (theirs uses more f's, yours is nearly pentatonic). Charlie's index makes it a near-match for "Mor Nighean a Ghiberlain", the only version of which I can trace in my files is this, which doesn't match all that closely: X:98 T: More W Inghean Ghiberlan S:Irtrad-L,Bruce Olson, 11/97 N:Oswald's CPC, bk. 1, c 1743 M:C| L:1/4 K:Am A/2G/2|EAA(G/2A/2)|~B2A(d/2c/2)|B3/2A/2 G/2A/2B/2G/2|\ BAA3/2B/2|(G/2A/2)(B/2c/2)dG|~B2AG|(D/2E/2)G(G/2A/2)(B/2G/2)|\ ~G~ED2|(D/2E/2)GG(D/2E/2)|G2g2|~e3/2d/2 (e/2g/2)(a/2g/2)|\ ~edB2|d(e/2f/2)gd|edgB|c(B/2A/2)e(d/2c/2)|~BAA:| Thet tune is itself halfway towards being "Katherine Ogie" (in any of the umpteen spellings of the name and variants of the tune). I presume all three are genetically related. This is one of the largest and most bogle-haunted quagmires in the Scottish tune repertoire. As for your Gaelic names: you are talking about *Addie Harper* there. As I understand it, Addie's attitude to Gaelic is much like Robbie Shepherd's was until a couple of years ago. I wonder what suddenly made Robbie so conscientious? Free pronunciation lessons from a bunch of large Highlanders carrying shinty sticks? =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
