>Anyone know what this tune is? > >X:712 >T:Untitled Reel >D:Ossian, Dove Across the Water >Z:Nigel Gatherer >M:4/4 >L:1/8 >K:Em >ef | g2 fg agfa | gefg dB B2 | > g2 fg agfa | gefd e2 :| >eg | dB B/B/B dBdg | dB B/B/B cA A/A/A | > dB B/B/B dBdf | gefd e2 :|
It looks very much like one of the Highland reels first published at the end of the 18th century by Patrick Macdonald and later by Aird. If you read it as being in A, Gore's index sorta matches it with a "Harris Dance" in MacDonald (p37). Anybody got a MacDonald to check? It would go quite well with the "Harris Dance" usually played these days. Anybody on this list coming to Edinburgh for the Festival? There's a series of four programmes on Gaelic music from different regions of Scotland in the official Festival, at the Hub, which look good if pricy (and subject to the problem that the Hub's main hall has an ambience like a school assembly room). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
