Re: [scots-l] traditional tune names?

[Anselm Lingnau]

John Chambers  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [Mairi's Wedding]
 This may be the best-known Scottish Country Dance in the  repertoire.

It may or may not be but it is certainly well-known enough that one
would use the particular tune for it and for it *only*. Dancers will
be very surprised indeed to hear another tune put forward for the
dance, Mairi's Wedding, or to encounter the Mairi's Wedding tune as
the lead tune for another dance.

Anselm
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Re: [scots-l] traditional tune names?

[George Seto]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jack Campin wrote:

  Mairi's Wedding: is that Scottish?
 
 Yes.  It's based (I'm told) on an older Gaelic song, Mhairi nighean
 a Donnachaidh, but I don't know it.  Mairi still alive, I think; the
 song was written for a specific wedding in the 1930s.  There is a
 specific dance for it, but you could use it for any reel.  It's a
 nice tune but the words (which I think were first written in English,
 don't blame the Gaels for it) are crap.

The song is known as Mairi Bhan. It was written in Gaelic, by John
Bannerman for a Gaelic Mod, 1935?, for a friend of his. The lady, Mary
McNiven, married 6 years later.

It was rewritten as an English song by Sir Hugh Robertson? or
Roberton a year LATER.



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Re: [scots-l] traditional tune names?

[Murray Shoolbraid]

It'd be easier I think if you gave us a list of tunes so that we could
assign them to Scotland or otherwise.  Mairi's Wedding of course is Scots,
and Petronella, if not actually Scots by birth, is naturalised by now I
think.  What else??
Good luck
Murray Shoolbraid

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