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Issue 980: correction of the tune name

Object
Mairi Bhan (Tune)
Submitter
Obama Masaaki
Assigned to
Viktor Lehmann
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Needs help
Description

The name of this tune in The FIDDLE MUSIC of SCOTLAND No.3 is not ‘Mairi Bhan’ but ‘Mairi Bhan Og’. So the tune ‘Mairi Bhan’ played by Frank Reid Band and Craigiever Band is another tune. "Mairi bhan òg’ = ‘Mary young and fair’ is also in the Collection by Captain Simon Fraser. It can be heard on the CD DOR-90287 ‘Lie Down, Poor Heart’, and Colin Campbell’s vinyl LP ‘Campbells are comin’'.

Previous Actions

  • Date  July 20, 2016, 7:17 a.m.
  • User  Unknown

New issue submitted

  • Date  Nov. 20, 2017, 9:58 p.m.
  • User  Meinhard Reiser (meinhard)

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

Thank you very much, sorry for the delay of a answer.

I don’t have access to “The FIDDLE MUSIC of SCOTLAND”, but I have “The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands”( vol 1-6) and there’s a slow air “A Mhàiri Bhàn Og”. Your right, the tune is different to both recordings.

An google search gives “Mairi Bhan” as the Gaelic version of Mairi’s Wedding. With this background, listening to the Frank Reid and the Craigievar recordings gives to me band interpretations for the tune “Mairi’s Wedding” under the alias “Mairi Bhan”.

Does anyone know in which publication the tune “Mairi Bhan” is published? to get a correct source.

Meinhard Reiser

  • Date  Jan. 16, 2023, 10:09 p.m.
  • User  Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)

Assigned changed to »tone2tone« (previously »meinhard«)

I will take over Meinhard’s former assignment here. His research seems absolute right. “Mairi Bhan” (in different spellings) is indeed “Mairi’s Wedding” as a tune, and this means our tune entries are mismatch. “Mairi Bhan Og” and spelling variations is a different tunes, used for strathspeys. There is a youtube video for an old shellack of “Mairi Bhan Og” which clearly is a different tune.
We should add aliases to the tune Mairi’s Wedding and combine those entries. In addition, “Mairi’s Wedding” HAS a defined composer and even year, this should be added, if the Wikipedia entry and further sources can be believed.
The former “Mairi Bhan” entry should then be renamed to “Mairi Bhan Og”, composer also given through tunefinder. This tune might not have any dances connected then.
Any objections? If not, I will start with changing the bits and pieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairi%27s_Wedding