Issue 3218: Confusion between this tune and “Miss Mary Douglas (Wilson)”
- Object
- Miss Mary Douglas (Tune)
- Submitter
- Anselm Lingnau (anselm)
- Assigned to
- Viktor Lehmann
- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Fixed
- Description
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These two tunes are completely mixed up in the database. The Wilson tune is a jig and the suggested tune for the eponymous dance in RSCDS Book 10, while this tune (which can be conveniently listened to on the 15-second sample of the “Hope Valley Reel” from the Third Sheaf Collection CD) is a reel and is presumably printed as such in the Third Sheaf book and Deirdre Adamson’s Celtic Collection (as Lady Mary Douglas). This tune is attributed to Niel Gow but this has been disputed elsewhere. Deirdre Adamson cites it as “traditional”.
The recordings here are all over the place and a wild mixture of jigs and reels. Presumably the jigs are the Wilson tune and the reels are this tune.
Previous Actions
- Date Aug. 12, 2023, 1:41 a.m.
- User Anselm Lingnau (anselm)
New issue submitted
- Date Aug. 18, 2023, 1:39 p.m.
- User Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)
Assigned changed to “tone2tone” (previously “None”)
Disposition changed to “Being handled” (previously “New”)
I’ll take care of it, adjusting the reel tune to the reel recordings, same for the jig tune/recordings.
- Date Aug. 18, 2023, 1:52 p.m.
- User Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)
Disposition changed to “Fixed” (previously “Being handled”)
Done. I adjusted the tunes as I pointed out above. In addition, I removed the wrong alias “Lady Mary Douglas” from the jig/Wilson version and attributed it to the reel tune; I readded it as an alias to one of the “Flowers of Edinburgh” recordings where the incorrect jig was given with that alias. I added extra notes to both tunes which is the reel, which is the jig. I think we are done here.