Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast Jeremy Kingsbury

S 08 E 08 John Peacock’s Collection Part 1 aka 5 days with a Northumbrian Small pipe Chanter


Tunes:
Peacock: Frisky, Welcome to the Town Again, A Mile to Ride, Niel Gows Wife, New Drops of Brandy, Bonny Lad, Niel Gow, Money Musk, Lady Coventry’s Minuet
Donald MacDonald: We’ll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town
Alexander MacKay: A mile to Ride
Niel Gow: Niel Gow’s Wife
Walker Jackson: Cummilum
James Aird: Niel Gow
James Bremner (and Frances Hopkinson): Lady Coventry’s Minuet


Special thanks to Benjamin Elzerman for the chanter and Reed!
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Clip of Alan Lomax introducing Jack Armstrong’s Playing:
https://soundcloud.com/oldtownschool/talking-northumbrian-small


Alan Lomax Recordings with Jack Armstrong:
https://archive.culturalequity.org/person/armstrong-jack


Alan Lomax Collection at Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/alan-lomax-manuscripts/about-this-collection/


Alan Lomax being a Creep talking to Bert Lloyd, I first heard this on the Fire Draw Near Podcast (around 35 minutes in the context for the clip starts Alan’s talking starts at 41 minutes):
https://soundcloud.com/firedrawnear/the-trees-they-do-grow-high


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Settings:


Most of the Music Comes from John Peacock’s Collection available on Ross’s Music Page:


1810: Frisky, Welcome to the Town Again, Niel Gows Wife, New Drops of Brandy, Bonny Lad, Niel Gow, Money Musk, Lady Coventry’s Minuet
From John Peacock’s “A Favourite Collection of Tunes with Variations adapted for the Northumberland Small Pipes Violin or Flute
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/peacock.pdf


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1828: We’ll Gang Nae Mair to Yon Town from Donald MacDonald
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682594


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1820s: A Mile to Ride from Alexander MacKay’s “A Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Slow Tunes, Arranged for the Piano Forte Chiefly composed by Alexander MacKay, Musician Islay”
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104488189


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1802: Niel Gow’s Wife: From Gow's Repository of the Dance Music of Scotland Part 2
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gow%27s_Repository_of_the_Dance_Music_of_Scotland_(Gow%2C_Niel)


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1774: Walker Jackson: Cummilum
http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/jcit/jcit_table.html


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1802: Niel Gow: From Aird, Vol 5
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90483464


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1780s: Lady Coventry’s Minuet with Variations from James Bremner by Frances Hopkinson
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90483464


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S 08 E07 George MacLeod's 1784 Repertoire part 2 (Patrick MacDonald's Piper)
Tunes:
William Vickers: Strike The Bell
Johnson: Simon Pure
Straight and Skillern: Stage Chace
Menzies: Taste Life’s Glad Moments
Patrick MacDonald: Tune 7 (The Goat Herd), Tune 8 (Spoigan/The Innundation), Tune 9 (The Drover Lads), Tune 10 (The Unfortunate Jock), Tune 11 (Behind the Bush in the Garden), Tune 12
Donald MacDonald: The Goat Herd
William Gunn: The Goat and Sheep Herd, The Inundation, The Drover Lads, Behind the Bush in the Garden
Angus MacKay: The Goat Herd
David Glen: The Goat Herd
Robert Ross: Spoigan
David Young: Unfortunate Jock


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1770: Strike the Bell from William Vicker’s Manuscript http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0310200.jpg


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1766: Johnson’s 24 Country dances for the Year 1766:
https://imslp.org/wiki/24_Country_Dances_for_the_Year_1766_(Various)


1775: Stag Chance from Straight and Skillern
Straight and Skillern’s 204 Favorite Country Dances:
https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)


1818: Taste Life’s Glad Moments from Daniel Menzies’ The Bagpipe Preceptor


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Most of the tunes this week come from Patrick Mac Donald's Collection of Highland Vocal Airs:
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The reprinted edition with the tune names in the notes can be found here: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection


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Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland Country Dances (George MacLeod)

1784: Tune 7 (The Goat Herd) from Patrick MacDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


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1828: The Goat Herd from Donald MacDonald
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682924


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1848: The Goat and Sheep Herd from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%2017.pdf


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1854: The Goat Herd from Angus MacKay
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105007509


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1876ish: The Goat Herd from David Glen:
https://ceolsean.net/content/DGlen/Book06/Book06%2014.pdf


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1784: Tune 8 (Spoigan/Innundation) from Patrick MacDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


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1774: Robert Ross’s Choice collection of Scots reels or country dances & strathspeys https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104997114


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1848: The Inundation from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%2029.pdf


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1784: Tune 9 (The Drover Lads) from Patrick MacDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


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1848: The Drover Lads from William Gunn’s The Caledonian Repository of Music Adapted for the Bagpipes
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%2029a.pdf


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1784: Tune 10 (Unfortunate Jock) From Patrick McDonald:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Collection_of_Highland_Vocal_Airs_To_w/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA34&printsec=frontcover


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1737: Unfortunate Jock from David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf


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1784: Tune 11 From Patrick MacDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


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1848: Behind the Bush in the Garden from William Gunn
https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book03/Book03%201.pdf


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1784: Tune 12 from Patrick MacDonald
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false


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Tunes:
Barry Shears: The Hen's March over the Hill, John MacColl's Favourite
O'Farrell: The Hen's Concert
Several other tunes played by Barry Shears


Check out Barry's New Edition of Gathering of the Clans here:


https://capebretonpiper.com/content/gathering-clans-collection-volume-1-anniversary-edition


1806: The Hen’s Concert from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780134


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Tunes:
John Sutherland Manuscript: The Lady’s Favourite, Paddy Whack, Kiss about the Hay Stacks, Salt Beef and Dumplings, The Peasant’s Dance, The Nosegay, Duncan Davison, Nancy Larson, Balty Horah, Trip it Up Stairs, Cock and the Hen, Fanny’s Fancy, The Witches,
David Young: Tail Todle, Collar Reel, Macfarlane’s Reel, Inverara Reel, The Wood of Fyvie, Four and twenty Highlandmen, What Meikle Sorrow Ails You, Corby Reel, Wattie Laing, O’er Bogie, Up and Worst them All Willy, Because I was a bonny Lad, Unfortunate Jock, The Confederacy, Kirkcudbright, You’ll Ay be Welcome Back Again, The Old Wife Beyond the Fire, Rob Shore in the Harvest, A Ranting Highlandman, Fettercairn Reel,


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All of the tunes this week come from John Sutherland’s 1780s Manuscript and the Drummond Castle Manuscript from 1737 available on Ross’s Music Page: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html


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Here are some Obituaries and Tributes to Ross Anderson:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366577932/Obituary-Professor-Ross-Anderson-pioneer-in-security-engineering-and-campaigner
https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/03/31/rip-ross-j-anderson/
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2024/03/29/rip-ross-anderson/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864210
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-1-april-2024/39303/
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/ross-anderson
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/ross_anderson_obit/


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Tunes:
Patrick McDonald: Ossian’s soliloquy on the death of all his cotemporary Heroes, North Highland Country Dances tunes 1-6, 24, Màraidh bhàn òg. {Potential/likely titles for tune 1-6: Tune 1: Joseph MacDonald’s Jig, Tune 2: Lady Wemyss’ Jig/Whip her and gird her, Tune 3: Far awa Wedding, Tune 4: maybe Shaggy Grey Buck, Tune 5: Stumpie, Tune 6& 24: Lord Reay’s Jig}
O’Farrell: Apples in Winter
Holden: Irish Trott
Donald MacDonald: LadyWemyss’ Jig
William Vickers: Cold and Raw


(Note that Cover Art is Not George MacLeod, but Niel McLean, “Piper to the Highland Society” in 1781:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/34827/neil-maclean-active-about-1781-piper-highland-society


Order and Thoughts:


Nearly All the tunes come from Patrick Mac Donald's Collection of Highland Vocal Airs:
https://books.google.com/books?id=XCvLHYWLkFcC&newbks=0&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The reprinted edition with the tune names in the notes can be found here: https://www.scotlandsmusic.com/Product/SM-V7M9GD/the-patrick-mcdonald-collection


Patrick MacDonald (Joseph MacDonald Section)

1784: Ossian’s soliloquy on the death of all his cotemporary Heroes


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Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland Country Dances (George MacLeod)

Thanks to Keith Sanger for identifying Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland piper.
I read some Excerpts from:
Ian Grimble, The World of Rob Donn (Edinburgh: The Edina Press, 1979).


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Tune 1: Joseph MacDonald’s Jig. Likely named for Patrick’s Brother. Somewhat awkward dotting and cutting.


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Tune 2: G# Tune, Whip her and Gird her, Note that Patrick annotates every G if there is a sharp in it, not just the first one (unlike other settings in this section).


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Set from Cold and Raw

1808: Apples in Winter
From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780458
1807: Irish Trott from Smollet Holden’s A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs Vol 1
https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Favorite_Irish_Airs_(Holden%2C_Smollet)


1828: Lady Wemyss’ Jig from Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Quicksteps, Strathspeys, reels and Jigs
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682572
1776: Cold and Raw from William Vickers Manuscript
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0305000.jpg


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Patrick MacDonald’s North Highland Country Dances (George MacLeod)

Tune 3: Far Awa Wedding is how I play this tune most (I think) from Donald MacDonald, not sure I included it but has an f grace note on an f up to a high G.


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Tune 4: Shaggy Grey Buck? I feel like I’ve seen this tune in Donald MacDonald, note the c grace notes to D, sometimes from a C c grace, D.


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Tune 5: Stumpie: Similar gracing style, with the e grace note on an E, also like that c sixteenth note as grace note in this tune.


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Tune 6: Lord Reay’s Jig…Lord Reay’s Piper possibly, Tune is in A Minor (C Maj) but with the F marked as Sharp. Slightly atypical gracing style from previous (though more conventionally GHB with an E gracenote for transition of C to D. also note the one F being sharp… next one not labeled Natural…


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Tune 24: Lord Reay’s Jig (slightly different than 6) the F sharp, F nat seems more clear here because of the repeat of marked f# it’s cool that both tunes use the F sharp F Nat it’s the Double F Dilema for a Wizard!


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Lord Reay Wizard story from:

Donald Omand, Caithness: Lore and Legend (Wick: North of Scotland Publishers, 1995).
https://archive.org/details/caithnessloreleg0000oman/page/42/mode/1up


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Patrick MacDonald (Joseph MacDonald Section)

1784: Màraidh bhàn òg


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Tunes:
Bremner: St. Paul/Aberdeen, Bristol
John Murphy: Miss Boswell’s Jig


William Dixon: Hacky Honey


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Here is a link to the music Theory video Rod shared with me about the way white supremacists have used music Theory:
https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA?si=GQqtJUc7O6VFbIc6


I recorded this episode about a month before this article often discussed with some sort of click bait title like “Pythagoras was wrong about music theory” (speaking of clickbait, did you know academics and journalists alike don’t often get a say on the title of their work, so if you see a particularly egregious title, don’t necessarily hold it against the author). The abstract is that our “western musical theory and the idea that there was universal harmonies, and that good music is just about consonance and not dissonance” is obviously a really limited perspective on what good music is, and intrinsically apparent to anyone who plays a drone instrument, or regulators.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45812-z


Settings:


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1762: Aberdeen (In G) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723589


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1762: Bristol (In G minor) from Bremner’s Rudiments of Music
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87723781


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1810: Miss Boswell’s Jigg from John Murphy
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en


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1733: Hacky Honey from William Dixon’s Manuscript


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