Welcome to Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of Sources

Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Welcome To Wetootwaag’s Bagpipe and History Podcast: Introduction and Review of Sources
Tunes:
Original: Improvisation at St. Clement’s Church on the Isle of Harris
Thomas Marsden: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe
Straigh & Skillern: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree.
Patrick MacDonald: Mermaid, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd)

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I forgot to mention it on the episode, but people have asked me if I would ever put out a tune book, and I might at some point, but if you want clean printed settings of many of the tunes I play I’d recommend Matt Seattle’s book: Geordie Syme’s Paircel o Tunes:
https://www.mattseattle.scot/product-page/geordie-syme-s-parcel-o-tunes

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Improvisation at St. Clement’s Church on the Isle of Harris from Oyster Wives Rant:
Improvisation in St. Clement’s Church on the Isle of Harris
I call this an improvisation, but it is heavily influenced by a lament I wrote for my father and Corrienessan's Salute. When we were on Lewis and Harris in 2019 I wanted to see this Church, which was a burial site for McLeod Chiefs hundreds of years ago. In my head MacCrimmon pipers would have played in this building for these chiefs. In reality St. Clement's Church was built in the 1520s, and therefore went out of use almost immediately because of the Reformation, but MacLeod chiefs continued to be buried there for some time. By the late eighteenth century it was in desperate need of restoration, which it received only for a fire to undo that work. In the 1870s it was restored roughly to its current state. It's a remarkable building, complete with Sheela na gig. We lucked into being there on a very rainy Sunday afternoon and had the church to ourselves for half an hour to explore and record a couple of tunes.
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes

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1690s: Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe:
You can find Pete Stewart’s transcription of the tune published in his book, Three Extraordinary Collections:
http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/index.php/publications/three-extraordinary-collections

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1775: Miss Fowler’s Delight, The Nabob, Pantheon, The Oak Tree.
These tunes all come from Straight and Skillern’s 204 Favourite Country Dances, published in London around 1775.
You can see the notes here:
https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)

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1784: Mermaid, Fisherman's Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph McDonald's Jig, Tune 6 & 7 (Lord Reay's Jig, and The Goatherd) All From Patrick MacDonald:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=0

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The Sources I most commonly use is a rather jumbled mess, but I think this spread sheet will get you the information you need:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NAUp_y6Sz4AlrPGGrP_MQ2Mwcv7ND55nasEEsxYDwGc/edit?usp=sharing

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