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TOW Book 1t
TOW Book 1t
TOW Book 1t
CONTENTS
1: Cenneag Mhor...................................... 1
2: Mo Chaillein Dileas Donn ................... 1
3: Johnny Murray of Lochee.................... 2
4: Rays Classic........................................ 2
5: Joans Jig............................................. 3
6: Little Diamond .................................... 3
7: Jenny Lind Polka................................. 4
8: Cro Cinn T-Saile................................... 4
9: Cavehill................................................ 5
10: Banbury Bill...................................... 5
11: My Beautiful Mandolin Friend........... 6
12: Wi My Dog and Gun........................... 7
13: Pretty Little Cat.................................. 8
14: Periwig, The....................................... 8
15: Drummond Castle .............................. 9
16: Yow Cam to Wir Door Yarmin ........... 9
17: New Five Cents, The ......................... 10
18a: Hoch Hey Johnnie Lad.................... 11
18b: Lord Drummond............................. 11
19: Wistfulness at Wiston...................... 12
20: I Bhi Ada.......................................... 12
Nigel Gatherers Tune of the Week, Book 1 First published January 2012
Compiled, designed and produced by Nigel Gatherer
All transcriptions by Nigel Gatherer, Nigel Gatherer 2012
TUNE of the WEEK
1: Cenneag Mhor
(traditional)
I transcribed this tune from my record collection, from one of my favourite Scottish dance bands, Addie Harpers Wick SCD
Band. I dont really know anything about the tune, but I like it. Its in a D pentatonic key, and fairly lilts along.
(traditional)
I learned this slow air from a recording by the folk group Ossian from Glasgow. Its a fairly well known Gaelic song
(unknown)
I learned this tune from fiddler Clare McLaughlin of Deaf Shepherd. I think its a variant of a bagpipe tune.
4: Rays Classic
(Willie Hunter)
5: Joans Jig
(Henry Clough)
This tune is from Northumbria and was composed by Henry Clough, father of the celebrated Northumbrian piper Tom
Clough. I notated it from the playing of Kathryn Tickell.
6: Little Diamond
(traditional)
I learned this tune from ace fiddler Clare McLaughlin. Its an Irish polka, possibly from the Coleman era.
(traditional)
I first learned the Jenny Lind Polka from Alastair Andersons wonderful album Concertina Workshop (1972). The tune was very
popular at one time, and was named after a famous Swedish opera singer, who was also known as The Swedish Nightingale.
(traditional)
A lovely slow tune from the playing of Alison Kinnaird. The tune is also called The Cattle Fold of Kintail, or The Kintail Lullaby.
9: Cavehill
(traditional)
The Cave Hill dominates the skyline on the northern edge of Belfast... I dont know anything about this tune. I got it from
Kerrs Merry Melodies (c1875).
(traditional)
I learned this English tune from a Dave Swarbrick record, and Ive always liked it. I think its a Morris dance tune.
Composed in honour of my friend, mandolinist extrordinaire Alison Stephens, who died in October 2010.
(Gatherer)
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(traditional)
This is an American Old-Time tune which I learned from a French musician called Cathy Castet. Recently she told me shed
got the name wrong, but I guess Im stuck with this title.
(traditional)
I first learned this tune from a recording of the folk group Ossian. Its an old Scottish reel first published in Capt Frasers
Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands and Isles of Scotland (1815).
(traditional)
This is a fine old Scottish jig. Note that you never play the F natural; this is a common feature in many tunes, and enables
one to play in unusual keys on fixed-key instruments such as the whistle. This tune is a jig version of the Strathspey
Cutting Ferns. Drummond Castle is just outside Crieff in Perthshire.
I got this tune from a Boys of the Lough recording. Its a traditional Shetland fiddle tune.
10
(traditional)
Inspired by a recording of the Irish group Lunasa. They called it Jerry OSullivans. Its root is an old Scottish tune and song.
(traditional)
Learned from a recording of The Tannahill Weavers, this old Scottish reel can also be found, in a slightly different setting, in
Kerrs Merry Melodies (c.1875).
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(Nigel Gatherer)
In 2011 I took part in a mandolin weekend residential at Wiston Lodge, Lanarkshire. The theme for the weekend was
the La Folia structure which has been used in classical music for centuries. Since it doesnt really feature in Scottish
traditional music, I composed this piece, which follows the chord progression of the later Folia.
(traditional)
A fairly well known tune, this is ther air to a port a beul, a Gaelic song used for dancing. This version is from accordionist
John Carmichael.
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INDEX
Banbury Bill............................................ 5
Cavehill................................................... 5
Cenneag Mhor......................................... 1
Cro Cinn T-Saile....................................... 4
Drummond Castle ................................... 9
I Bhi Ada................................................ 12
Hoch Hey Johnnie Lad........................... 11
Jenny Lind Polka..................................... 4
Joans Jig................................................. 3
Johnny Murray of Lochee....................... 2
Little Diamond ........................................ 3
Lord Drummond..................................... 11
Mo Chaillein Dileas Donn ....................... 1
My Beautiful Mandolin Friend................ 6
New Five Cents, The .............................. 10
Periwig, The............................................ 8
Pretty Little Cat....................................... 8
Rays Classic............................................ 2
Wi My Dog and Gun................................ 7
Wistfulness at Wiston............................ 12
Yow Cam to Wir Door Yarmin ................ 9
TUNE of the WEEK
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