And, the set is just a lovely a set as you'd want to hear. Well worth the price
for just the set!
Sue Richards wrote:
>
> At 10:14 AM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello All,
> > > Can some one recommend a good recording of "Lochaber No More"? I once
> > > heard it on a long out of print album called _Songs and Music of the
> > > Redcoats (1642-1902)_ sung (I believe) by Martin Wyndham Read.
> > >
> >You can probably find the tune on Irish recordings, because it
> >seems fairly certain that it's Irish. In the Leyden MS, 1692, it's "King
> >James March to Ireland", and later it's found as "Limbrick's
> >Lamentation", "[Since] Celia's my Foe" (replacing the original Irish
> >tune for Duffett's song of 1676]. "Limerick's Lament" in the Scots G.
> >Skene MS. See the Irish tune index on my website for other early titles.
> >
> >Bruce Olson
>
> I recorded three versions of this tune on my harp album, "Morning
> Aire". The Irish version is "Lament for Limerick", the Scottish version is
> "Lochaber No More", and then I went into an English Country dance called
> "The Irish Lamentation Waltz." They are similar and definitely related, but
> different. Fiddler Bonnie Rideout was with me. Available from
> <www.maggiesmusic.com>
> Sue Richards
>
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