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Robert Bremner: Stadholders Minuet, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, and Black Joke.

Big Thanks To Ryan Kirk for the performance and write up. Head over to the Facebook page to tell him thanks!

Thanks to Rob Turner for his Playing of James Oswald’s Burlesque on Black Joke. You can watch his youtube upoload of the tune, along with some stellar background information. https://youtu.be/vHFwsYbvZ-A

As I said in the episode, be sure to check out the rest of his music on his Youtube channel: fiauto

Bremner’s Guitar Tutorial settings for, Moorish Tunes, Mill Mill O, Willy was a Wanton Wag, Stadholders Minuet, and Black Joke:

Oswald: Burlesque on a Black Joak:

O’Farrell’s The Black Joke with Variations:

McGibbon’s Willy was a Wanton Wag:

Clare Dragoons: I just took off The Session

But you might be entertained by this bizarre “Fennian War Echoes” Pamphlet with the Song:

If you haven’t listened to The Dollop Episode about the Fenian Raids, it’s a pretty good laugh:

McGibbon’s Mill Mill O:

Here Is Ryan's Excellent write up if you'd like to see it as written:

English Guitar Notes:

The ‘Instructions’ portion of the text is relatively brief. It explains the tuning of the instrument (an open C major chord) and a few rudimentary techniques. Interestingly it describes a simple strumming technique and also suggests an alternating plucking with the thumb and forefinger, a common technique on the lute and other early stringed instruments now known as ‘thumb under’ that approximates the effect of a plectrum.

The musical selections themselves are mostly presented in simple settings. The music is provided in staff notation, rather than the tablature more commonly used for stringed instruments of the era. All of the music is transposed to C to fit the open chord tuning of the instrument. The texture is simple, mostly simple monophonic melody line with the odd open string drone or strummed open string chord for emphasis, when harmonically appropriate. In all but a few instances the music only calls on the player to strike notes on immediately adjacent strings, most often in melodic parallel thirds or a melody over an open drone string. There is none of the counterpoint, moving basslines, or harmonic figuration that is typical of Baroque or Romantic guitar repertoire. These factors along with the popular tunes suggests to me that the music was intended for an amateur audience and intended to be strummed as much as plucked. One could view the tutor as analogous to modern commercial ukulele books full of popular and folk tunes in simple arrangements.

The various Moorish tunes are interesting and of particular note. They are all extremely short and simple with a strong pastoral sound of open ringing intervals evocative of hunting horns and reveilles, perhaps intended to conjure the image of the trumpets popularly associated with the military bands of the Ottoman Empire.

In light of the above notes on the instrument itself, I have played the selected tunes on a modern steel string acoustic guitar, with a mix of pick and thumb and forefinger as appropriate.

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and on Part 2:

Be sure to check out the Phenomenal Video from ITMA about The Story of Jack Lattin For Their Drawing from the Well Series.

1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant:

Artwork for this Episode from David Allan “An Edinburgh Watercarrier with a Woman Standing at a Fountain” From the National Galleries of Scotland: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/8392/edinburgh-watercarrier-woman-standing-fountain?search=David%20Allan&search_set_offset=44

1757 Robert Bremner’s Loch Ness:

1757 Robert Bremner’s Feg for a Kiss

Lady Coventry’s Minuet with Variations by James Bremner As appears in Francis Hopkinson’s “Selections”

You can Download the Robert Millar Collection on Ross’s Music Page:

Robert Millar’s Lady Coventry’s Minuett can be found on this PDF Download (it is on page 15 of the PDF):

Robert Millar’s St. Paul Psalm can be found on this PDF Download (it is on page 6 of the PDF):

1769 Robert Bremner’s Straglass (Strathglass) house:

1769 Robert Bremner’s Cross Well of Edinburgh:

Misc.: Wha Saw the Forty Twa:

1769 Robert Bremner’s Open the Door to Three: (Goes all the way back to 17th Century Playford)

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Tune Order:

Cover Art is a Receipt from Robert Bremner’s Shop in London courtesy of the British Museum:

Most of my Written Sources:

1750s To Read Bremner’s Short Treatise on Music:

Robert Bremner, “Some Thoughts on the Performance of Concert Music” Early Music (Vol. 7, No. 1. 1979) pp. 48-57.

I was quite thankful to use the Grove Music Online entries on William McGibbon and Robert Bremner, unfortunately I can only find links through my University Library, which will do you no good.

Some good information from the Church of Scotland website on the Monymusk Revival:

The Newspaper Article I read from was Quoted in The Scots Magazine from April, 1755 Issue beginning on page 189.

I found the relavent passage in the Google Books Edition on Page 341:

The Magazine talks about the issue at length, but I was directed to it from this Website:

1750s Bremner’s The Grant’s Rant:

1750s Bremner’s Elgin:

1750s Bremner’s Aberdeen or St. Paul’s: (I found this setting after reading a much worse transcription, and I interpreted a note incorrectly, on 2 of the 3 parts, I did not go back to correct it….Robert Bremner would hate that his printed version was not even safe from change!)

Pre 1762 Bremner and Ramsay’s Mary Scott:

1720s. Daniel Wright, Aria Di Camera She Rose and Let me In:

Pre 1762 She Rose and Let me In from McGibbon, Bremner’s setting:

Pre 1762 McGibbon’s setting of Cumbernauld House:

Pre 1762 McGibbon’s setting of Bottom of the Punch Bowl:

Bremner’s Blue Britches:

Bremner’s Oyster Wive’s Rant:

Bremner’s The Carle he Came O’er the Craft:

Bremner’s Cuzle Together:

Bremner’s Miss Blair’s Reel:

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S6 E14 Eliza Ross Manuscript and borrowed Scottish Smallpipes

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I am mostly playing Ray Sloan Smallpipes in Bb, he kindly provided the Image for the Episode art as well, Thanks Ray! You can check out Ray’s work here,

I also play a set of Walsh Shuttle pipes, you can check them out here:

I also Play a set of Jon Swayne Border Pipe Drones with a different chanter plugged into the split stock:

And finally, I include a clip of me playing the Shepherd Musette Bb smallpipes:

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1784: Patrick MacDonald’s Collection: The Mermaid Song, The Fishermen’s Song for Attracting Seals, Spoigan, Joseph MacDonald’s jig, Lord Reay’s Jig, and The Goatherd; Harris Dance

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You can Find Eliza Ross’s Collection here:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/cultural-heritage-collections/school-scottish-studies-archives/archive-pubs/eliza-ross-manuscript

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Bonny Portmore from Bunting’s book, though he calls the Tune Have you seen my Valentine:

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1770: Strike the Bell from William Vickers:

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1733: Little Wee Winking Thing from William Dixon:

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I’d hate to say I’m playing Michael Grey’s setting of Whitby Runaround, cause it was very much from memory, and I had previously learned it with many unique interpretations on my own from ear, but you can get the music in Neil Dickie’s first book:

The Tidbit of Jimmy Blue I had in my head from my earliest pipe band days and Would be at a loss to direct you where to find it.

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S6: Cabar Féidh Vol II: Black and the Grey, Rakish Paddy with tracks from the Goodman Trio and Tiarnan O Duinnchinn

Special Thanks to The Goodman Trio, Mick O'Brien, Emer Mayock, Aoife Ní Bhriain: For letting me play, The Cup of Tea and The Kerry Lassie from “More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts”. Check out the album here:

Special Thanks to Tiarnan O Duinnchinn for letting me play the title track off his 2017 Album, Reggish Paddy. You can find it various places, and on Tiarnan’s Website:

I mention Pete Stewart’s book, Welcome home my Deary, I highly recommend it, you can buy it here:

1733: Black and the Grey from William Dixon

1751 Black and All Black from Johnson’s Choice Collection of Country Dances

1815ish: The Black and the Grey from Robert Topliff “Selection of the Most Popular melodies of the Tyne and the Wear”

1829: John Paterson’s Mare goes Foremost From Davies Caledonian Repository

(The Big suite of tunes is here, I completely missed the first page of the set that establishes that it is a Piece to commemorate William Wallace, I’ll revisit this in a future episode)

1840: Black and the Gray from Rook Manuscript:

1848: John Paterson’s Mare: William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository

Mid 20th Century: John Paterson’s Mare from Donald MacLeod

1860s: Reel (Cabar Fey) From Goodman:

1860s: The Cup of Tea and The Kerry Lassie from the Goodman Trio:

1860s: The Cup of Tea, http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=162&z=144.6097%2C1816.3145%2C8677.6066%2C3101.8519

1915: Sporting Pat from O’Neill’s Irish Music

1907: Rakish Paddy from O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Rakish_Paddy

1904ish: Rakish Paddy from Patsy Touhey, Thanks to the Ward Irish Music Archives!

2017: Reggish Paddy, Bunch of Regulator Keys from Tiarnan O Duinnchinn

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If you see this in time come visit at 6 PM US Central time on June 3rd to celebrate my album launch of Bannocks of Barley Meal!

You can check out Bannocks of Barley Meal on Bandcamp, I hope to have Physical copies available soon:

Thanks to Barry Shears for the set of tunes, you can see his website here: https://capebretonpiper.com/

Thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, you can check out Brian’s website here:

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Set from Bannocks of Barley Meal:

1774: Jackson’s Humours of Panteen, Jackson’s Nightcap, Jackson’s Morning Brush. All are from Walker Jackson’s own book, Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes.

1734 Caper Fei From Drummond Castle Manuscript, likely by David Young

1785: Caper Fey From John Sutherland’s Manuscript

1808: Caper Fey from O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion:

1822: Cabar Feidh from Alexander MacKay’s Islay collection:

1848: Cabar feidh from William Gunn’s Caledonian Repository

1854: Cabar Feigh from Angus MacKay’s Piper Assistant:

1869: Caber Feidh from William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Music

1860s: Reel (Cabar Fey) From Goodman:

1870: Caber Feigh from John and Robert Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe

1899: Caberfeidh from Logan's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music

20th Century Settings from Nova Scotia:

And I didn’t Ask Brian what setting he was playing, but thanks to Brian May for his playing of Cabar Feidh, as a Strathspey; you can check out Brian’s website here:

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Robert Bremner’s Setting from 1769 Country Dances for Caper Fey (I Didn’t play this one as it was too dependent on a leading note and far reaches of the second octave.

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Pete Stewart: La Muse au Gros Bourdon, Hunts Up, The Buffens, Bransle d’Escosse I, Salt Fish and Dumplings, Softly Robin.

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If you want to order a set of Jon Swayne Pipes you can check them out here:

You can Pick up Pete Stewart’s Book I’m playing through, “Robin With the Bagpipe” here:

You can Pick up Iain Gelston’s second book I am playing from here:

You can Get William Dixon’s Book Here:

You can Download the LBPS Blue Book for free and read through the excellent tunes here:

You can check out Archie’s Great Youtube page here:

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1775: Cave of Enchantment, Exeter Change both from Straight and Skillern’s 1775 edition: https://imslp.org/wiki/204_Favourite_Country_Dances_(Various)

1987: Mio and the Land of Far Away you may still be able to find the film on youtube:

Bannocks of Barley Meal, Alasdair of the Stoups & The Big Foot of the Deceitful One

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1780s: Bannocks Of Barley Meal, I’m using a setting from Volume V of Aird/MacFadyen’s Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs:

1812: Alasdair of the Stoups & The Big Foot of the Deceitful One can be found in Eliza Ross’s Manuscript:

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You can Watch Jamie’s Dixon Playthrough on Youtube:

If you want to buy some Podcast Merch Get it here:

If you don’t have a copy yet you can pick up a copy of William Dixon’s Manuscript several places:

You can find Pete Stewart’s books here:

Mr. Preston’s Hornpipe Played by Pete Stewart:

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Hey Everyone, I just wanted to post this quick announcement that I’ll be doing a livestream on Monday night, hopefully with my new pipes. If they don’t come in time I’ll still play some tunes.

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The pipes were in part made possible thanks to record sales of Pay the Pipemaker, so we’re playing some tunes from that album on the episode,

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You should check out ITMA's excellent Jack Lattin episode of Drawing from the Well:

1733: Edward the Second Minuet and New Way to Morpeth are both on Pay the Pipemaker:

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If you are interested in composing a tune for the Pitlochry Highland Games follow the link here:

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If you want to watch the Regency House Party it is hosted on youtube in the US, not sure of the availability elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZlGrTbZHg&list=PLA41E10951CB748DD

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Smollet Holden:

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1807ish: Baltioura: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

1807ish: What Call Have you to me Ned: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

1807ish: Yellow Stockings: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

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1969: The Cruiskeen Lawn from The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: version: https://youtu.be/aOOjMkt88hU

1808: The Cruskeen Lawn: O’Farrell’s Pocket Companion

1807ish: The Cruskeen Lawn: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

Sung Versions from Ottawa Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STLmNrXsks

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1807ish: Round the World For Sport: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

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Hermit of Killarney

1797: Account of Visiting “Roman’s Island” from George Holmes’ Sketches of some of the southern counties of Ireland, collected during a tour in the autumn, 1797, in a series of letters:

1806: Adieu Adieu thou Faithless World From O’Farrell:

1807ish: The Hermit of Killarney: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

1839: The Hermit of Killarney from Thomas Crofton Crocker’s Popular Songs of Ireland

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1807ish: Bigg Bow Wow: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

1807ish: She Is the Girl that Can do it: from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

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1951: Kisses Sweeter than Wine, by the Weavers:

1807ish: Drimindoo : from A Collection of Favorite Irish Airs

1959: Drimindown (Roud 2712) David Sear: (1959) - David Sear

1937: If It Wasn’t for Dicky: from Lead Belly: I couldn’t actually find out where this recording originally came from.

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