Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast Jeremy Kingsbury
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This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums Oyster Wives Rant, and Pay the Pipemaker go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums
For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/about
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Season 8 Episode 13 Small Small Pipe Episode Sutherland Tunes on Quiet Piper pipes
Tunes:
Sutherland: Boys on The Mall,
Chappell: Poor Robin's Maggot
O'Farrell: Merry old Woman
James Goodman: Lord Mayo
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S 08 E 12 Saw a Lassie of Fifteen in the Mines at Wicklow: John Sutherland Manuscript Part 2
Tunes:
John Sutherland: The Witches, The Boys of the Mall, Boys Avoid of all Care, Peggy Kelly
Fitzmaurice: Turn the Pig from the Teapot Jigg
O’Farrell: The Gay Lass, Saw Ye a Lassie of Fifteen, The Merry old Woman, Old Women’s Money, Tiarnnan Mayo, Lord Mayo,
Playford: Wou’d you Have a young Virgin or Poor Robin’s Maggot,
Thomas D’Urfrey: Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years
Chappell: Poor Robin’s Maggot
John Gay: If the Heart of a Man is Distrest with Cares (Scene III The Beggar’s Opera)
Alan Ramsay: Would you have a young Virgin of fifteen Years,
Chetwood: Wou’d you court a young Virgin
Oswald: Saw Ye a Lassie of fifteen Years
James Aird: Miners of Wicklow, Miners of Wicklow
Thompson: Tiagharna Mhaighe-co
James Goodman: Lord Mayo
Cover Art From William Hogarth’s Marriage A La Mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_A-la-Mode_4,_The_Toilette_-_William_Hogarth.jpg
1811: Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5402/pg5402-images.html
Sources:
1785: The Witches, The Boys of the Mall
From Sutherland Manuscript
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf
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1805: Turn the Pig from the Teapot Jigg from Fitzmaurice
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fitzmaurice_s_New_Collection_of_Irish_Tu/vq4Fb5TyTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP11&printsec=frontcover
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1909: The Rose in the Gap From Donnellan: (I DIDN”T PLAY THIS On the Episode)
Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sep., 1909)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27727870
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1806: The Gay Lass From O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion No. 2
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780710
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Saw Ye a Lassie of Fifteen Years
1785: Boys Avoid of All Care
From Sutherland Manuscript
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf
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1710: Wou’d you Have a young Virgin, Poor Robin’s Maggot from Playford’s Dancing Master
http://playforddances.com/dances-2-3/woud-you-have-a-young-virgin/
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1719: Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years from
Thomas D’Urfrey’s
Wit And Mirth: Or Pills To Purge Melancholy (In F) https://archive.org/details/witandmirthorpi01durgoog/page/n150/mode/2up
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1838: Poor Robin’s Maggot From W. Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time
(Bb I think) https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91365150
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1728: If the Heart of a Man is Distrest with Cares. Scene III MacHeath, Lyrics from Beggar’s Opera
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/91303356
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1734: Would you have a young Virgin of fifteen Years From Alan Ramsay’s Tea Table Miscellany
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90302594
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1709: Would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years from
Thomas D’Urfrey’s Modern Prophets
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Modern_Prophets/XFHeyb9R_r4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA65&printsec=frontcover
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1731: Wou’d you court a young Virgin From W. R. Chetwood’s The generous Free-mason: or, the constant lady. With the humours of Squire Noodle, and his man Doodle. A tragi-comi-farcical ballad opera. In three acts. With the musick prefix'd to each song
https://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk/page_turner/001319079/000026/0
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1740s: Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Companion Vol 2 Cal
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94599696
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1806: Saw Ye a Lassie of Fifteen Years and The Merry Old Woman
(G Major Key Sig…D Bring it home note maybe? Maybe D Mix? But the addition of the C Naturals makes it interesting) from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94567380
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Both D Major 6/8s with some C Naturals
1780s: The Miners -
S 08 E 11 Exploring Key Signatures from Walker Jackson Part 2 with tunes from Frank Claudy and Patrick Hutchinson
Tunes:
Walker Jackson: Cossey’s Jigg, Jackson’s Morning Brush, Jackson’s Night Cap, Jackson’s Dream, Humours of Listivain, The maids in the Morning
Niel Gow: The Cossy Jigg
James Aird: Casseys Jig, The Humours of Listivain,
O’Farrell: The Cosey Jigg, Jerry’s Rambles,
Francis O’Neill: Jimmy O’Brien’s Jig
John Clinton: Copey’s Jigg,
John Bowie: Humours of Listivain, Pither in Enough
O’Farrell: Jerry’s Rambles, Sally McGee, Sheelina Gra Will You Be Mine,
Henry Hudson: Jolly Old Woman
Richard Levey: The Humours of Bandon
Patrick Hutchinson: Humours of Listivain
Frank Cloudy: Humours of Listivain
Many thanks to Patrick Hutchinson and Frank Cloudy for supplying me with their takes of Humours of Listivain.
Patrick and Frank both mentioned Kieran Jordan’s Sean-nós dance choreography to the tune
Kieran kindly sent me a link to a video of the dance, which begins around fifteen minutes in (with a solo slow air)
https://youtu.be/mVxeGJIaDaY?si=2y23oW2oAGoNMfkZ&t=1031
If you’d like to get a copy of the Album Frank Cloudy sent me (and I highly recommend it) send Frank an email (and $12 to claudyf@msn.com )
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SOURCES
I play through Many Tunes from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.
Unfortunately it isn’t available online anywhere in facsimile form, but NPU has a transcription available here:
https://pipers.ie/source/gallery/?galleryId=51&_gl=1*n8kkbi*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAxMTYyNC4yLjEuMTcxNjAxMTYyOC4wLjAuMA..
Or the ABC on Bill Black’s Website here:
http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/30/30-table.html
Similarly I play through a couple tunes from O'Farrell's National Collection, it also Isn't available in Facsimile form anywhere, but you can see it here:
http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/47/47-table.html
Cossey’s Jigg
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1774: Cossey’s Jigg from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
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1795: The Cossy Jigg from Niel Gow’s “A Collection of Strathspey Reels Vol 2 https://archive.org/details/collectionofstra00gown/page/n62/mode/1up
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1780s: Casseys Jig from James Aird’s 3rd Volume
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94563936
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1806: The Cosey Jigg from O’Farrell’s Pocket book 2
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780974
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1907: Jimmy O’Brien’s Jig from Francis O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland
https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Dance_Music_of_Ireland_(O%27Neill%2C_Francis)
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1840: Copey’s Jigg from John Clinton’s Gems of Ireland
https://imslp.org/wiki/Gems_of_Ireland%2C_Op.45_(Clinton%2C_John)
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1774: Jackson’s Morning Brush from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
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1774: Jackson’s Night Cap from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
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1774: Jackson’s Dream from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
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Humours of Listivain
1774: Humours of Listivain from Walker Jackson
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1780s: Humours of Listivain from Aird Vol. 3
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564176
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1789: The Humours of Listivain from John Bowie’s Collection of Strathspey’s Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels_and_Country_Dances_(Bowie%2C_John)
Note Pither in Enough on the same page Also note that the TUNEARCH ABC has it in D Maj incorrectly
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1800: Jerry’s Rambles, from O’Farrell’s National Collection
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1800: Sally McGee from O’Farrell’s National Collection
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1806: Sheelina Gra Will you Be Mine from O’Farrell’s Pocketbook.
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780290
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1840s: Jolly Old Woman From Henry Hudson (https://sites.nd.edu/rbsc/the-citizen-and-henry-hudsons-collection-of-irish-music/ )
https://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/bookreader/MSE_1434-2/#page/10/mode/1up
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S 08 E 10 Tunes from the William Litten Manuscript
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S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
S08 E09 Exploring the Key Signatures in Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes
Tunes:
Ewan MacColl: Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell
Walker Jackson: Humours of Panteen, Jackson's Bouner Bougher (3 Ways), Jackson over the Water,Jackson’s Turret, The Figure of 3,
John Bowie: The Humours of Panteen, Pither in Enough
James Aird: Pither in Enough, Jackson Over the Water,
John Murphy: Jackson Over the Water
O’Farrell: Jackson’s Lake, Jacksons Punch Bowl, Jacksons Bottle of Punch
Sutherland: Jackson’s Lake,
Francis O’Neill: The Figure of Three
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Jamie Raeburn
1840: Jamie Raeburn as seen on a Penny Sheet
https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=15846
1901: Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell from Robert Ford’s Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland: With Many Old and Familiar Melodies Vol. 2
https://archive.org/details/vagabondsongsan00fordgoog/page/n74/mode/2up
1960: Jamie Raeburn From Ewan MacColl’s Chorus from the Gallows
https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/2011/01/ewan-maccoll-chorus-from-the-gallows-tsdl502/
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Walker Jackson
I play through Many Tunes from Walker Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.
Unfortunately it isn’t available online anywhere in facsimile form, but NPU has a transcription available here:
https://pipers.ie/source/gallery/?galleryId=51&_gl=1*n8kkbi*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAxMTYyNC4yLjEuMTcxNjAxMTYyOC4wLjAuMA..
Or the ABC on Bill Black’s Website here:
http://www.capeirish.com/ittl/tunefolders/30/30-table.html
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1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen from Jackson
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1789: The Humours of Panteen from John Bowie’s Collection of Strathspey’s Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels_and_Country_Dances_(Bowie%2C_John)
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1774: Jackson’s Bouner Bougher
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Pither in Enough
1774: Pither in Enough from Walker Jackson
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1789: Pither in Enough from John Bowie’s Collection of Strathspey’s Reels and Country Dances https://imslp.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Strathspey_Reels_and_Country_Dances_(Bowie%2C_John)
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1780s: Pither in Enough From Aird Vol 3
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564692
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Jackson’s Over The Water
1774: Jackson’s Over The Water From Jackson
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1780s: Jackson over the Water from Aird Vol 3
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94564116
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1810: Jackson Over the Water from John Murphy’s collection of Irish Airs and Jiggs with Variations
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_collection_of_Irish_airs_and_jiggs_wit/_Up5WmARde0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA32&printsec=frontcover
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1804: Jacksons Lake from O’Farrell’s Tutor
https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=53&mediaId=5521&_gl=1*11706ep*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc5MDE0MTUwNS4xNzE2MDA4ODM2*_ga_8BBP57V9FE*MTcxNjAwODgzNS4xLjEuMTcxNjAwODkwOS4wLjAuMA..
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1780s: Jackson Lake From Sutherland’s Manuscript:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-81-120.pdf
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1774: Jackson’s Turret from Walker Jackson
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Figure of Three
1774: The Figure of Three from Jackson
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1808: Jackson’s Punch Bowl from O’Farrell Pocket Companion #3
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf
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1922: The Figure of Three from O’Neill’s Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Waifs_and_Strays_of_Gaelic_Melody/S3UQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR1&printsec=frontcover
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1808: Jackson’s Bottle of Punch from O’Farrell Pocket Companion #3
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/ofarrellspc3.pdf
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S 08 E 08 John Peacock’s Collection Part 1 (aka 5 days with a Northumbrian Small pipe Chanter)
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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https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes
or my second album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker
or my third album on Bandcamp!
https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal
You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1
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