I have been listening to Sarah Jackson's "Sounds of the Ocarina" (rather nice versions of tunes from all over the place). It has a thing called "Scartaglon Polka" which is "The Piper's Cave" with a third part added - anyone know where that came from? and a dead straight performance of "Cutting Bracken" but renamed as "Cnochd a Bheannichd" - again, where'd the other name come from?
It has also just occurred to me that "Bannocks of Barleymeal" (which I've been learning on the flute, having put Burk Thumoth's version "Tho' for Seven Long Years" on my flute CD-ROM and thinking it might behove me to play the thing myself) and the Irish set dance tune "The Munster Cloak" are basically the same thing. There is a somewhat dubious yarn about the Irish version (brought over by shipwrecked sailors from the Armada) but it hadn't occurred to me before that it might have a Scottish origin. Though it doesn't sound much like any other Scottish tune either, in fact "Bannocks..." suggests castanets, flamenco guitar and ladies in frilly dresses stamping on tabletops even more strongly. Ideas? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
