>> The included attachment...
> 1) It's not usually done to send attachments to mailing lists. [...]
> 2) It's not clear what kind of file it is. As it loads into one of my
> applications which reads Word files, I assume it's a Word file.
Word 8, it seems. Here it is in a more portable form (8-bit characters
stripped out) which I'd guess current Microsoft software can't generate
(I used BBEdit for the Mac). But what happened to the first line?
==- begin quote ===
MACFARLAN O' THE SPROTTS (Afore that I'd be tyraneest as I this file hae been)
G. Bruce Thomson
Greig FSNE cxlv, 1. 4x8 lines + varied 4-line cho.
Kerr's Cornkisters 36 (+ m., by Willie Kemp) ["McFarlane o' the Sprots o'
Burnieboosie"]
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Air by Neil Gow ("the younger") - to words by James Hogg. Originally a reel,
titled Lady Ann Carnegie's Favourite.
Captain White
Jig
Matthew SCD Music (1954), 13 [from Kerr]
Greenholm
Jig
A 6/8 set of "Believe Me if all those Endearing Young Charms".
Bonnets o' Blue
Jig
Kerr's Merry Melodies II.34; RSCDS 10, 9 (D)
Miss Margaret Brown's Favourite (now Lady Camden)
slow 6/8, by Nathaniel Gow
Niel Gow's Coll.
A. Shand OSM (1932), 21 (G); Manson (1853), I.65; [Maggie Brown's Jig] Kerr's
Merry Melodies 34; II.33 (G).
[This is usually called Maggie Brown these days.]
Red Red Rose, The (1)
Strathspey
Kerr's Merry Melodies III.6 (D)
Red Red Rose (2)
Scots Jig
Kerr's Merry Melodies II.34 (D)
Orange and blue (1)
6/8 Jig
Kerr's Merry Melodies II. 35 (A); Skye (1887) 121 (C); Cox MS., 16; Manson
(1853), I.17 [marked "English air"]; perhaps the jig version is English, the
schottische the (characteristic) Scottish version.
Orange and Blue (2)
Highland Schottische
Skinner SV 20 (A) [with variations]; Kerr's Mod Album 6 (D); Kerr's Merry
Melodies 4; SGSS 170 # 314.
An old Gaelic puirt-a-beul, Brochan lom (hence used for the dance "The Hebridean
Weaving Lilt"); the nonsense words refer to thin gruel (sowans), or "plain porridge".
Age and composer unknown. Scots words exist, also of a nonsensical character:
"The broon coo's gotten oot and eaten a' the corn", etc.
Lady Mackenzie of Coul
Reel
Gow's coll., whence A. Shand OSM (1932), 28. [Lady McKenzie of Couls Strathspey]
Cox MS., 116
Black Dance, The
Reel
J. Campbell, 58
RSCDS 12, 10 (F)
R. Bride's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1769
Rose Tree, The (1)
2/4 Scots Measure
Kerr's Modern Album 19 (D); Kerr's Cal. Coll. 29 (D)
Rose Tree, The (2)
Waltz
Allan's Reels 43 (Bf)
Rakes of Mallow
Irish, 2/4
Kerr's Merry Melodies III.41 (G); Kerr's Cal. Coll. 16 (A); Gem CD 17 (G)
Words: nonsense jungle, "Sandy's Mill".
Soldier's Joy, The
Reel/Scots Measure (D)
Joshua Campbell's Reels [Glasgow, J. Aird, 1778], 56; McGlashan's Scots Measures
[Edin., N. Stewart, 1781]. Cox MS., 17; last 8 bars, ibid. 178; Gem CD 19; Kerr's
Reels 6; Kerr's Mod. Album 3; Robertson Athole Coll. (1884), 150; Skye (1887) 38.
RSCDS 2, 6 [the dance of this name there printed is "still performed in the West of
Scotland. Another called 'Jackey Tar', danced in Perthshire, is very much like it."]
Words to air: ""I am a son of Mars" (Burns, Jolly Beggars).
In one of the EFDSS Community Dance Manuals; RSCDS book; Scandinavian Dance
Music, 2nd ser., as Hornfiffen. Included on a limited ed. LP of English trad.
music put out in 1965 by Reg Hall & Bob Davenport (as played by a Norfolk band).
American recordings: Uncle Dave Macon (Vocalion 14887 - 1924), Fidlin' John Carson
(Okeh 45011 - 1926), Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers (1934 recording, reissued on County
514), Hobart Smith (Folk-Legacy FSA-17); also on two anthologies, Mountain Music of
Kentucky (Folkways FA 2317) and Traditional Music from Grayson and Carroll Counties
(Folkways FS 3811). [English Dance & Song Summer 1970.]. Several sets in Bayard,
Dance to the Fiddle (1982). JCR 56 .];: The Soldier's Joy; AMM 32. Single sheet song
with music, c. 1760, BUCEM, "When the shrill trumpet sounds on high". Also with
music in Vocal Music, or the Songster's Companion, c. 1778.
I'll gang nae mair to yon toun
Reel
[SMM #458. ] Kerr's MM II 21 (F); [I'll Go no More to Yon Town] Gow Rep 28 (F);
[Eight men of Moidart, The] (PR) SGSS 187 # 350; (R) RSCDS 3, 10 (F); Robertson
Athole Coll. (1884), 205 (F); [I'll gae nae mair to your town] Bremner, 6; Manson
(1853), I.126. [I'll go no more to yon town] Cox MS., 84. Surenne DMS 57. [I'll goe
nae mair to your Town] CPC 10, 15; JCR 17; AA1 #35; JBR.
=== end quote ===
Here is a jig version of Orange and Blue which I think predates any
that Murray listed. I don't see why it couldn't be as Scottish as the
schottische one. I think I've seen even earlier manuscript versions.
X:43
T:Orange and Blue
N: as a jig
S:Davie's Collection of Reels, Dances &cc
B:Wighton Coll 10435 (49)
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:C
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e2c {d}cBc|G2c E2c |e2c ege| c3 cde|f2d d2c|B2d d2c|B2G BdB| G3 G2f
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e2c {d}cBc|G2c E2c |e2c ege|(cBc) efg|a2f g2e|f2d e2c|Bcd GAB| c3 c2
||
f |e2g gag|e2g gag |e2c ege| c3 cde|f2a {b}aga|f2a {b}aga|f2d faf| d2e fed
|
efg gag|efg gc'g|e2c ege| ccd efg|afa geg|fdf edc|Bcd GAB|[1c3 c3
:|\
[2cag
fed"D.S."|]
Note the duple-time "Rose Tree", titled as "The Old Lea Rigg", dates back to
the 18th century.
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