October 31, 2020

S4 E31: Halloween Edition! Fairies, Ghosts and Devilish Pipers Special Halloween Episode

54 minutes

Robert Burns: Tam O’Shanter

Bremner: Jenny Nettle, What the De’il Ales you?

Vickers: Deval Stick the Minister

John Sutherland: Devil Stick the Minister, The Devil’s Dream

William Gunn: Jenny Nettles

Bland And Weller: The Fairies Revel

Thompson: Love Sick Polly

Padraic Ganly: The Fairy’s Bagpipe

Seamus Ennis: Queen of the Fairies

Cover Art from This 1775 Political Cartoon: Three noblemen dance round a tall thistle as the devil plays the bagpipes; representing Scottish influence on the British policy towards American independence. Engraving, 1775.

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/kdbr6gua

Robert Bremner: What the De’il Ails you?

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003032

Tam O Shanter Story:

http://www.robertburns.org.uk/Assets/Poems_Songs/tamoshanter.htm

And the Lovely Youtube Animated Telling of the Poem:

https://youtu.be/dkiZbpd9stw

De’il Stick the Minister From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #128):

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-41-80.pdf

The Devil’s Dream From Sutherland: (Download PDF Link and Tune #46):

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/sutherland/suth-pp-1-40.pdf

Deval Stick the Minister (Vickers): (clicking link may not work, but copying it in should)

http://www.farnearchive.com/detail.asp?id=R0300901

Story of The Devil’s Dream Playing Fiddler From Jabez Allies, On the Ignis Fatuus: Of, Will-o’-the-wisp, and the Fairies (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London: 1846)31-32.

https://books.google.com/books?id=4C-_AQAACAAJ&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false

Scots Musical Museum Jenny Nettles:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/94624348

Robert Bremner’s Jenny Nettles:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105003175

William Gunn’s Jenny Nettles (The Tailor’s Daughter): (PDF Download from Ceol Sean)

https://ceolsean.net/content/Gunn/Book02/Book02%2025.pdf

Fisherman Dances for a Year Stories can be found in John Gregorson Campbell, Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland (Glasgow: John MacLehose and Sons, 1900) 61-35.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61730/61730-h/61730-h.htm#CHAP_II_SEC_7

Bland and Weller’s The Fairies Revels:

https://archive.org/details/BlandWellers24CountryDancesForTheYear1803/page/n7/mode/2up

Love Sick Polly from Thompson’s Complete Country Dances 1773-1780:

https://archive.org/details/ThompsonsCompleatCollectionOf200FavouriteCountryDancesVol41773-80

For the Various versions of the Changeling in the Cradle playing the bagpipes see below:

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008860/4961500

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009342/5008794/5130359

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4493687/4410669

More Complex Version from Barry O’Neill:

Johnnie In the Cradle on page 203:

https://pdfslide.net/documents/british-folk-tales-and-legends.html

The Fairy’s Bagpipe from Padraic Ganly:

https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/score/ganly-82

I heard about this cool collection “Poblacht na hÉireann” from Argentina during the SCUPC piper’s Sunday with Pamela Schweblin. This collection of original compositions composed by Padraic Ganly about a hundred years ago has some of the best titles for tunes, and pretty cracking melodies too. You can look through them all at ITMA:

https://www.itma.ie/features/notated-collections/ganly-poblacht-na-heireann

“The Fairy Warning” story from the Duchas site:

https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4602676/4594563/4615015

You Can Read the Peter Laban’s Transcription of Seamus Ennis’s playing in Sraith 2 Uimhir 29 Marta 1986 of An Piobaire:

https://pipers.ie/source/media/?galleryId=1011&mediaId=25931

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