Nigel Gatherer wrote: > > Each time they play it through, Bain/Cunningham play it a slightly > different way - I can't decide whether they're simply making mistakes. > Does anyone know the tune from another source? >
> -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland That's an awful lot different from the tune usually called "Bonaparte's Retreat". S. Bayard in 'Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife' #237, notes several versions of "Bonaparte's Retreat", (in addition to the 8 he collected), the most easily found of which are in O'Neill's 'Music of Ireland', #1824, "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine", and in the Roche collection, II, #231, "Bonaparte's March". Bayard takes it to be of the "Gilderoy" family. Bruce Olson Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my website <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a> Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
