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Issue 2330: MacLeod of Lewis

Object
MacLeod of Lewis (Dance)
Submitter
Stephen Webb (SJW)
Assigned to
Murrough Landon
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Needs help
Description

Please add to the Recommended Music: O’er Bogie MacLeod of Lewis is a Medley 48S+48R for Three-couples in three sides of a square. The tunes The Gareloch is the strathspey & O’er Bogie is the reel.

Please also add to Extra Info This dance was collected from J McAskell of Stornaway by Mary Isdale MacNab. The dance dates back to 1649 and was very popular in that period.

Previous Actions

  • Date  March 1, 2021, 4:23 p.m.
  • User  Stephen Webb (SJW)

New issue submitted

  • Date  May 2, 2021, 6:53 p.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

Assigned changed to »murrough« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

Extra info updated.

The PDF now linked on London Branch website (https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/L07-MacLeod-of-Lewis-1.pdf) shows the O’er Bogie tune. SCDDB currently has a tune O’er Bogie tae my Love. The JC Tune Finder has O’er Bogie wi(th) my Love. Scores are in different keys and look slightly different though perhaps just variations. Anyway rather than add a duplicate or link the wrong one I have left this for someone more musically expert.

  • Date  Dec. 22, 2022, 6:42 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Hi Murrough, go to https://tunearch.org/wiki/O%27er_Bogie (which also states being identical to O’er Bogie wi’ My Love) and there are different arrangements for the tune. The first ones do not look at all like Barbara McOwen’s one, BUT if you open “show score for” the version of “Stephen Grier music manuscript collection”, then you see that those are basically identical. The versions above that who look more elaborate correspond with your tunefinder version https://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/20561 pretty much. Safe to say that we talk about the same basic tune, YET we have to assume that the “tae” name is identical with the “with” name. Which is absolutely likely.