"Scartaglon" should be Scartaglen the small town in east Kerry associated with Padraig O'Keefe and the Sliabh Luachra fiddle tradition. The local tradition contains a large amount of Scottish based tunes, for whatever reason, but not the big reels as in Donegal. There are a number of polkas with the Scartaglen handle. Jackie Daly, when he played at the Aberdeen free reed bash two weeks ago, said that he is partly to blame as he put some of the names to the tunes in the 1970s when he was making records.
Regarding the Munster Cloak I seem to remember the Armada yarn goes back to Sean O'Riada or Paddy Moloney. The Corries used to play it also and may have called it the Spanish Shawl. I seem to remember the Corries and Chieftains playing it together on a Scottish TV programme a long time ago including two flutes. The Spanish composer Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916) wrote his ten Danzas espa�olas for piano (subsequently reset for guitar and orchestra and dance number 6 is quite close to the Irish/Scottish piece. The dance is said to be a "rondalla Aragonesa which describes the scene of guitars being strummed in the streets and is in the rhythm of the jota, a dance from Aragon and Valencia". Granados was drowned in the English Channel when the boat on which he was returning home from an American tour by way of Liverpool was torpedoed. Stuart Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
