December 19, 2020

S4E36: Some Holiday Tunes and Bodachan a Gharidh (The Merry old Gardener)

41 minutes

Tunes:

O’Farrell: Lewellynn, A Piper o’er the Meadows Straying, Black Joke

John Parry: Nos Calan

Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning

My Setting?: Mill Mill o, Baloo Lammy

Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh (The Jolly Old gardener)

Aird: Bodachan a garidh (The Merry old gardener)

Be Sure to Head over to Ryan Kirk’s Youtube Channel to catch some stellar tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jY3tVICOSthOfESS8MjNA

Here’s a Link to the Newgrange Winter Solstice Livestream which will begin shortly after this episode is posted and should run through till the Solstice.

https://livestream.com/accounts/285324/events/9440165/player

You can check out photos of past Solstices from Mayeshowe at the below link:

http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/

If you want more Christmas Bagpipe Carols Check out Charlie Rutan’s Christmas Bagpipe Series on Facebook: They are a great bit of history and music, well worth a watch!

https://www.facebook.com/Christmas-Bagpipes-101281248507906

1808 O’Farrell: The Black Joke With Variations:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87780734

1770s? James Aird: Bodachan a garidh

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87706527

1828: Donald MacDonald: Bodachan a gharidh Jolly Old Gardner

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105682627

1808 O’Farrell: Unfortunately Lewelynn and A Piper O’er the Meadows Straying are both from the O’Farrell Pocketbook companion Volume 3 that I can’t link to easily. You can download the PDF off Ross’s Music Page, or look at the Cape Irish ABC notation Settings:

http://www.capeirish.com/webabc/working/source.folders/ofpc/ofpc.3/ofpc.3_table.html

1781 John Parry: Nos Calan

https://viewer.library.wales/4675640#?c=&m=&s=&cv=17&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F4675640%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=-213%2C458%2C4871%2C3692

Matt Seattle: Christenmiss Day in the Morning: Matt just posted his setting for the tune that I am Riffing on into the Discussions on the LBPS forum on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LBPSGroup/?multi_permalinks=4233880116629245¬if_id=1607973793745357¬if_t=group_highlights&ref=notif

1820ish Robert Topliff: It bares a passing resemblance to this rather busy Nineteenth Century Setting From Robert Topliff:

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/104483151

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