BLACK DONALD'S MARCH TO THE ISLES (Píobaireached Dhomhnuill Duibh). AKA and see "Cameron's Gathering." Scottish, Pipe Pibroch. Mac Dhomhnuill Duibh is the Gaelic patronymic of Cameron of Lochiel. The alternate title "Cameron's Gathering" comes from Gesto. The tune was copied by Alexander Campbell in 1815 for his book Albyn's Anthology from Captain Neil McLeod of Gesto's manuscript collection of pibrochs, as performed by the famous piping dynasty of the MacCrimmons of Skye.
CAPTAIN CAMPBELL OF CARRICK'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. D Major. Standard. AB. McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; pg. 9.
T:Captain Campbell of Carrick's Reel
L:1/8
M:C|
S: McGlashan - Strathspey Reels
K:D
D3F A/A/A A>F|A>Bd>A F/F/F F>D|E3F B/B/B B>A|d>fe>d B/B/B B>d|
D3F A/A/A A>B|A>BdA F/F/F F>D|(G2 G>)B (F2 F>)A|(E2 E>)F B/B/B B>d|
(D2 D>)F A/A/A A>F|A>Bd>A F/F/F F>A|E3F B/B/B B>A|d>fe>d B/B/B Bc/d/|
(D2 D>)F A/A/A A>B|A>Bd>A F/F/F F>D|G>BG>B F>AF>A|
E>DE>F B/B/B B>A||d3f d/d/d d>A|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>D|e3f e/e/e e>f|
a>ef>d B/B/B B>A|(d2 d>)f d/d/d d>A|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>D|G3B F3A|
E3F B/B/B B>A|(d2 d>)f d/d/d d>e|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>A|(e2 e>)f e/e/e ef/g/|
a>ef>d B/B/B B>e|(d2 d>)f d/d/d d>A|B>Ad>A F/F/F F>D|(G2 G>)B (F2 F>)A|
E>Deg f>def||
CAPTAIN CAMPBELL OF CARPHEN. Scottish, Strathspey. A Dorian. Standard. AABB. The tune appears in M. McDonald's 2nd collection. Glen (The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music), Vol. 1, 1891; pg. 46.
T:Captain Campbell of Carphen
L:1/8
M:C
S:Glen Collection
K:A Minor
E|A/A/A AB cABE|G/G/G Gc d>cBG|A/A/A AB cABG|e>dgB A2A:|
B|Aa a>g e/g/e/d/ cd|e^fge d/c/B/A/ GB|Aaa>g e/g/e/d/ ce|dBgB A2 A2|
Eaa>g e/g/e/d/ cd|e^fge d/c/B/A/ GB|cAdB e>dce|dBgB A2A||
CAPTAIN CAMPBELL'S RAMBLE. English, Jig. England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard. AABB. Seattle (William Vickers), 1987, Part 2; No. 354.
CAPTAIN CAMPBELL('S STRATHSPEY). AKA - "Captain Campbell." Scottish (originally), Canadian; Strathspey. Canada; Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island. A Minor or Dorian. Standard. AAB (Hunter, Kerr, Perlman): AABB' (Athole, Carlin, Lerwick): AA'BB' (Little). Sources for notated versions: Cape Breton style fiddler Harvey Tolman (Nelson, N.H.) [Little]; Eddy Arsenault (b. 1921, St. Chrysostom, East Prince County, Prince Edward Island) [Perlman]. Carlin (Master Collection), 1984; pg. 72, No. 108. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 70. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; Set 12, No. 6, pg. 9. Lerwick (Kilted Fiddler), 1985; pg. 29. Little, 1984; pg. 34. Lowe (A Collection of Reels and Strathspeys), 1844. Perlman (The Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island), 1996; pg. 194. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 51. Green Linnet GLCD 3105, Aly Bain - "Lonely Bird" (1996). Tartan Tapes CDTT1004, Amy Geddes - "Heat the Hoose" (1998).
T:Captain Campbell
L:1/8
M:C
R:Strathspey
B:The Athole Collection
K:Aminor
A|E<A A>B c>A B<G|E<G G>A Bd c/B/A/G/|E<A A>B c>Bc>e|
d<B g>B A2A:|B|A<a a>g e>d c<e|d>eg>e d/=c/B/A/ GB|1
A>a a<g e>d c<e|d<B g>B A2A:|2 c<A d>B e>d =c<e|d<B g>B A2A||
CAPTAIN O'KANE/O'KAIN. AKA and see "Cailin tighe moir," "Captain Henry O'Kain," "Giolla an Bimhoir," "The Wounded Hussar," "The Small Birds Rejoice." Irish, Air or Planxty (6/8 time). E Aeolian (Matthiesen, O'Neill): G Aeolian (Gow). Standard. AB (Complete Collection, Matthiesen, O'Neill): AABB (Gow). "Captain O'Kane" is thought to have been composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) for his friend Captain O'Kane (or O'Cahan), a sporting Irishman of a distinguished County Antrim family well-known in his day as "Slasher O'Kane"(Donal O'Sullivan, Carolan, The Life and Times). O'Sullivan's attribution is based on a comment by Hardimann (who said O'Carolan wrote it) and because of stylistic similarities with other O'Carolan works. O'Neill (1913) quotes Patrick O'Leary, an Austrailian correspondent, who wrote that the Captain of the title was "the hero of a hundred fights, from Landon to Oudenarde, who, when old an war-worn, tottered back from the Low Countries to his birthplace to die, and found himself not only a stranger, but an outlawed, disinherited, homeless wanderer in the ancient territroy that his fathers ruled as Lords of Limavady." The earliest printing of the tune Captain Francis O'Neill could located was in Aird's 1788 Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, though he also found it (under the title "Captain Oakhain: A Favourite Irish Tune") in McGoun's Repository of Scots and Irish Airs, Strathspeys, Reels, etc.(Glasgow, 1803)-the same title and presumably the same tune was printed in McGlashan's 1786 collection. The song "The Wounded Hussar" was written to the melody by Alexander Campbell (O'Sullivan gives his name as Thomas) and appears in Smith's Irish Minstrel (Edinburgh, 1825). It was also included in Surenne's Songs of Ireland without Words (Edinburgh, 1854). Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 325. Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 133, pg. 95. Hardiman, Irish Minstrelsy, 1831. Matthiesen (Waltz Book II), 1995; pg. 10. McGlashan (A Collection of Reels), c. 1786; pg. 36 (appears as "Captain Oakhain"). O'Farrell (Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes), c.1799-1800. O'Neill (1850), 1979; No. 627, pg. 111. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; pg. 245. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922. Green Linnet GLCD 1151, Seamus McGuire - "The Wishing Tree" (1995). Maggie's Music MM107, "Music in the Great Hall" (1992).
T:Captain O'Kain, or The Wounded Hussar
B:O'Neill's Waifs & Strays of Gaelic Melody, 1922
Z:transcribed by Paul de Grae
R:air
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Em
E/D/|B,EF G2 F/E/|F/G/A/G/F/E/ DEF|GBG B/A/G/F/E/D/|
B,EE E2 E/D/|B,EF G2 F/E/|F/G/A/G/F/E/ DEF|
GBB B/A/G/F/E/D/|B,EE E2 E/F/|
GBB B2 A/G/|FAA A2 d/c/|Be^d e>fg|Be^d e2 e/f/|
g>fe d>cB|AFd DEF|GBG B/A/G/F/E/D/|B,EE E2||
T:Captain Oakhain
L:1/8
M:6/8
N:"A favourite Irish Tune"
S:McGlashan - Reels
K:G Minor
G/F/|DBA B2 A/G/|A/B/c/B/A/G/ FGA|BdB cB/A/G/F/|DGG G2:|
|:G/A/|Bdd d2 c/B/|Acc c2f|d>g^f g>ab|dg^f g2 g/a/|bag f>ed|
d/c/B/A/f FGA|BdB d/c/B/A/G/F/|DGG G2:|
CAILÍN TIGHE MOIR. AKA and see "Captain O'Kane." Irish, Air. The melody appears under this title in The Bunting Manuscripts in the library of Queen's University. Bunting wrote in pencil alongside the air, "A good set of the 'Wounded Huzzar'", a reference to Thomas Campbell's song "The Wounded Hussar" which was sung to a variant of the tune.
CAMPBELL'S FAREWELL TO REDCASTLE. See "Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap," "Steph's Reel." Scottish, March (2/4 time). A Mixolydian. Standard. AABB' (Gatherer, Martin). The Campbell referred to in the title may by the Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, who led troops in the massacre of Glencoe Pass in 1692. Redcastle is a village on the north side of Beauty Firth approximately 100 miles from Glencoe, whose castle was built in 1179 (it claims to be the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland). The Scots Guards Standard Pipe Settings suggests that "The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel" follow "Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle." Glendaruel is on the way to Tighnabruaich from Glencoe and is nearly as far to the south as Redcastle is to the north. Gatherer (Gatherer's Musical Museum), 1987; pg. 46. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), Vol. 2, 1988; pg. 1. Ross, William Ross's Collection of Pipe Music (1875).
T:Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle
T:Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap
S:Various books & records
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:A
E|AA/B/ cc/d/|ea e>d|cA AB/c/|dd/B/ =GE|
AA/B/ cc/d/|ea e>d|cB/A/ =G/A/B/G/|A2 A:|]
=g/f/|ea a=g/f/|ea e>d|cA AB/c/|1 dd/B/ =G g/f/|
ea a=g/f/|ea e>d|cB/A/ =G/A/B/G/|A2 A:|2
dd/B/ =GE|A/B/c/d/ c/d/e/f/|e/f/g/a/ e>d|cB/A/ =G/A/B/G/|A2 A|]
INVERARY CASTLE (Caisteal Inbher-aora). Scottish, Strathspey. E Minor (Skye): F Sharp Minor (Fraser). Standard. AB. Inverary Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. In his notes for the tune Captain Simon Fraser weakly states: "Inverary Castle, and Argyllshire in general, is a part of the country the editor has not much frequented; but this air celebrates the splendour of that edifice, and the magnificence, tempered with benevolence and condescension, therein supported by the late Duke." Composition of the melody was attributed to Fraser in Lowe's collections, though Fraser himself never indicated this was so in his writings. Inverary Castle originally dated around 1520, although a 'new castle' was built alongside it by Morris and Mylne, who drew up plans in the early 1700's. It was completed in 1770 and the old castle torn down. It was the 5th Duke, who when Marquis of Lorne, modernized it and completed its decoration. Today it ranks as a spectacular early example of neo-gothic building in Britain. Castle Inverary is said to be haunted by a ghostly harper, the murdered victim of the troops of the Duke of Montrose in pursuit of Campbell enemies. Like the Irish banshee, this dark-tartaned ghost appears most often to women visitors, often in the Blue Room of the castle, and his music sometimes presages the death of one of the Dukes or Argyll or sounds on the occasion of their funerals (Sanger & Kinnaird, Tree of Strings, 1992). Fraser (The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles), 1874; No. 32, pg. 11. MacDonald (The Skye Collection), 1887; pg. 75.
T:Inveraray Castle
T:Caisteal Inbher-aora
L:1/8
M:C
S:Fraser Collection
K:F# Minor
C<F ~F2 C>F A<F|C<FF<G A<B c2|C<F F2 C>F A<F|E>C A,<B, C>E E>^D|
C>F ~F2 C>F A<F|C<FF<G A<B c2|C<F F2 C>F A<F|E>CA,>B, C<E E2||
c/B/|A>B c<a f>cc>B|A>Bc>f c>f f2|A>Bc>f A<fc<f|e>B G<E G<B B2|
A>B c/f/c A/f/A c/f/c|A>Bc>f a/g/f/^e/ f>g|a>cB>A G>FE>D|C>A,E>A, C>E E2||
T:Inverary Castle
S:MS from 1850s
Z:Nigel Gatherer
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:E minor
B,>E E2 B,>EG<E|B,<EE<F G<A B2|B,>E E2 B,>EG<E|D>B,G,>A, B,>DD>^C|
B,>E E2 B,>EG<E|B,<EE<F G<A B2|B,>E E2 B,>EG<E|D>B,G,>A, B,>D D2|]
B/A/|G>AB<g e>BB>A|G>AB>d Be e2|G>AB<e d<eB<e|d>AF<D F<A A2|
G>A B/e/B B/g/B B/e/B|G>AB>e g/f/e/^d/ e>f|g>BA>G F>ED>C|\
B,>G,D>G, B,>D D2|]
MACGREGOR'S GATHERING (Cruuinneach nan Griogarach). Scottish, Pipe Pibroch. The tune was copied by Alexander Campbell in 1815 for his book Albyn's Anthology from Captain Neil McLeod of Gesto's manuscript collection of pibrochs, as performed by the famous piping dynasty of the MacCrimmons of Skye. Clan Gregor claims descent from Grigar, third son of Kenneth MacAlpin, first king of Scotland. Glenorchy was the clan's original seat but as they prospered lands in Glengyle, Glen Lyon, Glen Straye and Balquidder came under their control. The clan's prospects waned in response to increasing power of the Campbells, however, resulting in their retreat into the Balquidder area, and at one point they became known as "The landless clan."
MAIRI'S WEDDING. AKA and see "Lewis Bridal Song." Scottish, Scottish Measure (4/4 time). Scotland, Hebrides. G Major. Standard. AABB. The tune is from the Hebrides Islands (the alternate title refers to the Isle of Lewis) which lie off the north coast of Scotland and was first printed in Marjory Kennedy-Fraser's Songs of the Hebrides (1909), with English words (though thought to have been originally in Scots Gaelic). There is nothing that particularly distinguishes this tune as Scottish, notes Emmerson (1972), save for the "hint of Rant in the first two phrases." An article in the Glasgow Daily Record by Stephen Houston claimed that the song "Mairi's Wedding" was originally written for Mary McNiven by her friend Johnny Bannerman in Gaelic and was first played to her at the Old Highlanders Institute in Glasgow for the Mod of 1935 (where she won the prize for singing). Although unlikely, due to the printing of the song in the 1909 Songs of the Hebrides, the article states that although the song was written for her, it was not on the occasion of her wedding but rather for her birthday -- she married Skye-born sea captain John Campbell 6 years later. The article was published the day before Mary's 90th birthday.
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Chorus:
Step it gaily, off we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe,
Arm in arm and off we go (or 'row on row')
All for Mairi's wedding.
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Over hillways up and down
Myrtle green and bracken brown,
Past the sheiling through the town
All for sake of Mairi.
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Plenty herring, plenty meal
Plenty peat to fill her creel,
Plenty bonny bairns as weel
That's the toast for Mairi.
***
Cheeks as bright as rowans are
Brighter far than any star,
(or Red her cheeks as rowans are
Bright her eye as any star)
Fairest o' them all by far
Is my darlin' Mairi.
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Miller & Perron (New England Fiddler's Repertoire), 1983; No. 54. Tradition 2118, Jim MacLeod & His Band - "Scottish Dances: Jigs, Waltzes and Reels" (1979).
T:Mairi's Wedding
L:1/8
M:C
K:G
|:D3E D2E2|G2A2B4|A2G2E2G2|B2A2Bd3|D3E D2E2|G2A2B3c/B/|A2G2E2C2|D8:|
|:d4 d3e|d2c2B4|A2G2E2G2|B2A2Bd3|d2Bd2e|d2c2B3c/B/|A2G2E2C2|D8:|
MISS WEDDERBURN('S REEL) [1]. AKA and see "Miss Jenny Wedderburn," "Burn O' Cairnie," "Burn of Carnie," "Greenfields of America," "(Pretty) Molly (Judy, Miss) Brallaghan (Brannigan)," "Old Mother Flanagan," "The Carpenter's March," "Napoleon's Farewell to Paris," "The Grand Conversation of Napoleon," "The Bold Sportsman," "Captain Rock," "McKenna's Dream," "Pratie Apples," "Under the Rose." Scottish, Reel. A Major. Standard. AAB (most versions): AABCCD (Gow). John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of the tune in print in Joshua Campbell's 1778 collection (pg. 75). Moyra Cowie (1999) suggests Miss Wedderburn was perhaps the daughter of John Wedderburn, of Auchter House near Dundee. Source for notated version: Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) [Brody]. Brody (Fiddler's Fakebook), 1983; pg. 194. Gow (Complete Repository), Part 4, 1817; pg. 27. Hunter (Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 248. Kerr (Merry Melodies), Vol. 1; Set 25, No. 4, pg. 15. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; pg. 1. Rounder 7008, "Jerry Holland." Carl MacKenzie- "Welcome To Your Feet Again."
T:Miss Wedderburn
L:1/8
M:C|
B:The Athole Collection
S:Reel
K:A
F|~E2EF EFAc|BABc BAFA|~E2EF EFAc|BABc A/A/A A2:|
||c|d2fd c2ec|BABc BAFc|d2fd c2ec|BABc A/A/A Ac|dfdf cece|
BABc BAFf|efge a2gf|ecBc A/A/A A2|]
REVEREND MR. PATRICK MACDONALD OF KILMORE, THE. AKA and see "Lord Balgonie's Favourite," "Mr. Nairne's Strathspey," "Gloomy Winter's Now Awa." Scottish, Strathspey. A Minor. Standard. AAB. The tune was claimed and published by Alexander Campbell (who published Captain Fraser's collection) in Albyn's Anthology (1815), but his claim to it was undermined by the Gows who published the same melody in Fourth Collection (1800), calling it "Lord Balgonie's Favourite" with a note that it was "A very Old Highland Tune." The air was used by Tannahill for his popular song "Gloomy winter's now awa.'"/ The Reverend Patrick Macdonald was born in the Manse of Durness, Sutherlandshire, in 1729, the son of a musically inclined father and grandfather. As a child he and his brother were tutored in the violin by the excellent musician Kenneth Sutherland of Cnocbreac, and their sister was reputed to have equalled if not excelled her brothers as an instrumentalist. Brother Joseph, also a skilled bagpiper, left for a post in India but succombed a few years after his arrival to fever, leaving behind a collection of 86 original airs, but Patrick was educated at the University of Aberdeen and licensed as a preacher. He became the nimister of the parish of Kilmore which he headed for 69 years, married and with his wife Barbara raised a large family, dying in 1824. John Glen (1891) remarks:
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His ministerial office appears to have deterred him from
becoming a bagpipe player like his brother Joseph, but in
his handling of the violin, he is acknowledged to have
been unexcelled among his presbyterial brethren. An
annecdote is related of him, that being in Edinburgh on
one occasion as a member of the General Assembly of
the Church, he was urged by Stabilini (who was indisposed)
to act as his substitute for the evening. He agreed to do so,
and it is said that he executed his part so well that his
audience were charmed and delighted. It is also said that
there was some talk of his clerical brethren taking him
to task for this performance in a playhouse, but that the
general esteem in which he was held saved him from
being brought to book.
***
Alburger (Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music), 1983; Ex. 95, pg. 156.
STRAW MAN, THE (Bodach Fodair). Canadian, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. A Major. AEAE. AB. The second part of this tune is the same as that of "Captain MacDuff's Reel." The reel was called by the Gaelic title by old-timers on Cape Breton Island. Source for notated version: Buddy MacMaster (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg]. Dunlay & Greenberg (Traditional Celtic Violin Music from Cape Breton), 1996; pg. 138. Sea-Cape Music ACR4-12940, Buddy MacMaster - "Judique on the Floor" (1989. Appears as 1st "Traditional Reel"). Celtic CX 35, Donald MacLellan (c. 1950's. Unlisted after "The Leigh R."). Rounder 7009, Doug MacPhee - "Cape Breton Piano" (1977). Topic 12TS354, John Willie Campbell - "Cape Breton Scottish Fiddle" (1978. Appears as "Untitled"). WRC1-1548, Carl MacKenzie. WRC1-6100, Atlantica 04 50222, Kyle and Lucy MacNeil - "Rock in the Stream" (1989. Appears as "Mabou Coal Mines").
WOUNDED HUSSAR, THE. AKA and see "Cailin Tighe Moir," "Captain O'Kane." Irish, English; Slow Air (6/8 or 3/4 time). B Flat Major (Howe): A Minor (Huntington, Knowles): A Dorian (Ó Canainn): G Minor (Ashman). Standard. AB (Ashman): AAB (Ó Canainn): ABB (Huntington, Knowles). Once a very popular song by Thomas Campbell, set to a variant of the air "Captain O'Kane" by Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Knowles indicates the tune is found "all over Britain" but that his version is from England's Lake District. Source for notated version: a c. 1837-1840 MS by Shropshire musician John Moore [Ashman]. Ashman (The Ironbridge Hornpipe), 1991; No. 93a, pg. 37. Howe (Musician's Omnibus), No. 2, pg. 129. Huntington (William Litten's), 1977; pg. 44. Johnson (Our Familiar Songs), pgs. 543-544. Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; pg. 7. Ó Canainn (Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland), 1995; No. 47, pg. 43.