Issue 1830: Tune
- Object
- The Robertson Rant (Recording)
- Submitter
- Mark Dancer (Aelfric)
- Assigned to
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- Priority
- Normal
- Disposition
- Needs help
- Description
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The first tune is given on the CD as Struan Robertson, but it’s Struan Robertson’s Rant #1670 as published in Book 39.
Source: reading the music in Book 39 while playing the track.
Previous Actions
- Date Nov. 14, 2019, 8:53 a.m.
- User Mark Dancer (Aelfric)
New issue submitted
- Date Nov. 21, 2019, 8:33 p.m.
- User Murrough Landon (murrough)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)
The tune called just “Struan Robertson” (ID #5037) is currently listed as being used for 4 recordings of the dance The Robertson Rant.
There are 14 other recordings of that dance which have the lead tune given as “Struan Robertson’s Rant” (ID #1670).
So is ID #5037 a duplicate of ID #1670?
If so we should delete #5037, add the shorter alias to ID #1670 and relink 4 recordings to use the correct tune. Right?
- Date Jan. 21, 2023, 7:41 p.m.
- User Viktor Lehmann (tone2tone)
Online sources of the Jimmy Shand recording state clearly that the lead tune is “Struan Robertson’s Rant” (as per the official dance publication), not the shorter “Struan Robertson”. We can safely presume that the other S80 recording comes with the same tune, so I corrected them both.
Trickier at first sight for the two remaining recordings, both S32, where I can’t find any online reference for tunes used in these recordings. The tune “Struan Robertson” appears as one of the follow ups on SCDDB, not as lead tune. tunearch lists “Stuart Robertson’s Rant” as 32 bar versions in Strathspey though, see https://tunearch.org/wiki/Struan_Robertson%27s_Rant_(1) PLUS gives various aliases (some of them we don’t have), one of them being “Stuart Robertson”… https://tunearch.org/wiki/Red_Haired_Girl_of_Tulloch_(The)
I think it is safe to move the remaining two entries of 5037 over to 1670 and delete the duplicate. Any objections?