Keith W Dunn wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the story behind this tune? I've read that it's
> either a Shetland or Orkney tune but what about the author? And....does
> anyone have a gif or jpg file of it that they could send to me off list?
> If so......send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I've searched the net through Google and wasn't able to find much at all.
> I heard Alasdair Frasers version and liked it quiet a bit but as I said,
> I haven't been able to find any information on it or a gif \ jpg file
> anywhere. I don't have an abc conversion program.
>
> Also, I read that it was somehow associated to "Trowie" tunes. So, there
> must be more. Does anyone have a list of "Trowie or Trow" tunes?
>
Not my field of interest, only know of the famous Peerie Willie for
anything sounding like that, fiddler not tune; but -
Peeri is faery or little people, same origin as fairy presumed from
Persian (probably not at all, but Victorian philology propagated the connection)
Trow is dwarf (in the underground, little people, otherworld sense)
So trowie and peeri would both just mean fairy tunes, of which there are
supposed to be plenty - typically, tunes which a musician will hear in a
dream or half waking, or which just come into the head as a finished
item. Most musicians who compose tunes can lay claim to getting one or
two that way!
David
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