I would need books to answer most of those (especially number 10), which is cheating, but I suspect the answer you're going to give to this one is the wrong way round:
> Finally, what are the original Scottish tunes on which the following > are based: > 20. The Gallowglass (Ireland) Surely it's more likely that the Irish jig (or perhaps a march version thereof) came first? There is another lament by a relative of the composer of that one, also based on an Irish tune, where the Irish version was printed in the same book the Scottish one first appeared in (thanks to Charlie Gore for pointing that out, in an issue of "Box and Fiddle" last year). I think it was in print elsewhere before the subject of the lament died. Amazingly, the OED (first edition) doesn't have "gallowglass". When would they have been topical enough to have the tune named (or renamed) after them? These two tunes work well together - you're usually going to surprise the whole audience because hardly anybody knows both the Irish and the Scottish one. (The third one in the family - see my Dalkeith site - is much less played than the other two). =================== <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
