John Chambers wrote: > > Just a comment from a couple of weeks back: I did take versions of > the two tunes called "Gramachree" along to the dance event, and it > was pretty much agreed that neither of these tunes was what was > needed. The jig was out because the dance is a strathspey. The air > was a more likely fit, since airs are sometimes used for strathspeys. > But we just couldn't make it sound right. So we picked some random > strathspey tunes that we knew, and the dancers seemed happy. > > Maybe there's a version of "Gramachree" that we don't know of, that > would work for an air-type strathspey. The usual sources for Scottish > dances seem to imply that "Gramachie" is a tune that everyone should > know. But none of us seem to know it, and it isn't in any of our > books. The dance was published by Miss Milligan (Miscellany v.2) > without a tune, and she also implied that the tune was well-known. > > Maybe I should ask on the strathspey list, for future reference. > > | Looks like a minor spelling problem. According to Andrew Kuntz: > | > | GRAD(H) MO CROID(H)E. AKA and see "The harp that once through Tara's > | halls," "Gramachree," "Gramachree Molly," "Will you go to Flanders," > | "Little Molly O." Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard. AB. Roche > | Collection, 1983, Vol. 1; No. 28, pg. 15. > | > | Recognise it now? > | > | Ted > | > | > | > -----Original Message----- > | > From: John Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | > Sent: 28 November 2001 21:52 > | > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > Subject: Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call > | > > | > Nigel writes: > | > | I demand that: > | > ... > | > | OK, you get the idea: unless this mailing list really is as dead as > | > | Patie Birnie's mare, let's get some action going. I've never known it > | > | to be as quiet as this. Me? Oh no, I've no time for such frivolities. > | > | Talk to me, people! > | > > | > Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called > | > "Gramachie"? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere. My > | > Tune Finder has never heard of it, and none of the pile of trad tune > | > books on my shelf seems to contain it. The title sounds somehow > | > familiar, but I can't think of how it sounds. Anyone out there know > | > it? Got an abc version? > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
George Ogle's song "Gramachree Molly" (Molly Ashtore/ As down on Banna's Banks I strayed) was apparently first published with music in 'The London Magazine', Sept., 1774 (BUCEM). Song and tune are in 'The Scots Musical Museum', I, #46, 1787, Ogle's song being the 2nd song to the tune. An ABC of the SMM tune and a copy of "Will you go to Flanders" from Oswalds CPC are in file S2.HTM on my website. Over a dozen early copies of the tune are listed in the Irish tune title index on my website. 'Gramachree' is corrupt Gaelic for 'love of my heart'. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or just <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Motto: Keep at it; muddling through always works. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
