I am having a bit of trouble trying to name a set.
I know a lot of people are probably more interested in the names of the tunes themselves, but I quite like the actual sets a having names to.
So, heres where you can help...
The tunes:
The Green Cottage, ( not one of the versions on The Session.)
MacLaine of Loch Buie,
and The Road to Banff.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Good luck, but PLEEEEEEZ!!... - if you make an amazing CD one day, *do* put the names of all the tunes on the outside cover! When people don't, and just give some snappy one-word title for a tune set, it's annoying - you don't know what you're buying (or saying no to).
I am sure the combined brain cells of The Session will come up with something, with maybe a few neural explosions on the way. But I don't know the tunes.
No Llig, that's boring!
I suggest combining parts of all the tune names to make something that sounds like it could make sense - but is actually nonsense. Like, in this case, I would call the set "Green Loch Banff". It conjures up the image of a green, algae-ridden loch in Banff, but the tunes are all there!
I like doing this. You can get brilliantly surreal set-names this way. For instance: the Butterfly, the Kid on the Mountain and An Phis Fhluich could become "The Butter-Phis on the Mountain".
I was going to suggest Green Loch Banff, but I couldn't be bothered. Now you have, Joe, I have to point out, as I would have pointed out myself if it was myself who pointed it out, that it would confuse the tourists.
Did you get the name for the second tune from a Cape Breton recording? Perhaps MacLean of Loch Buie might be a more accurate spelling - but then again, I might be wrong.
Ron P, I got the tune off here, from Hanneke Cassel's cd My Joy. I think you might be right about the spelling. Would you say that MacLean is the name of someone? Or a place etc? I don't know.
MacLean is a surname (as are all the other "Mac..." or "Mc..." names, like MacDonald, McCusker, MacGowan, McNeill, et cetera). "Mac" in front of a name means "son of", in Gaelic - Scottish Gaelic, anyway. However, these surnames have been fixed for a long time - they don't change with the Christian names of each generation, as they do in Iceland.
(Incidentally, I know no rule by which you can tell if a particular name is spelled "Mac" or "Mc" at the beginning, if you haven't seen it in writing.)
As places don't have parents and children, you wouldn't expect them to have "Mac" names, and I imagine these are pretty unusual. I can think of Ben Macdhui, a mountain in the Cairngorms, and nothing else right now. There may be settlements and districts called after distinguished people with a "Mac" surname - industrialists, e.g. - but I can't think of examples.
I think you should call it "The Scottish Set", as I hope you wouldn't be the sort of person who posts on this set AND plays a lot of Scottish music. All your Irish sets, though, you'll have to work out names for themselves.
Loch Buie is on the Isle of Mull off the western shore of Scotland. Banff is northeast across on the eastern shore of Scotland. Even being the stout and hardy chieftain he is, he couldn't have made it in one hoofing, so he had to stay at the Green Cottage aloung the way, possibly at Newtonmore. I would like to make such a treck myself one day.
I agree with llig. About the name of the set, that is, not about you wasting our bloody time, after all, questions are what this discussion section of the Yellow Board are all about.
Sometimes in the pub, as a bit of shorthand, we will say "How about Banish Misfortune?" and because everyone has played together for a while, we all know that Garrett Barry's Jig will be following it. But naming a set after the first tune in the set (such as The Green Cottage Set) is about as far as I would go down that road.
Kenny, The Green Cottage 'I' play is a jig, not a polka ( it's a different arrangement, written by a New Zealander ,) so I handle the changes fine. I have quite a bit of fun crossing over from 6/8 to 4/4 to 6/8.
My first barn-dance band used to do that on some dances, to keep things lively, if there was a marked verse/chorus sort of difference between the two parts. Or go into Atholl Highlanders for the last time through The Cumberland Square Eight.
I need help to name a set!
I need help to name a set!
I am having a bit of trouble trying to name a set.
I know a lot of people are probably more interested in the names of the tunes themselves, but I quite like the actual sets a having names to.
So, heres where you can help...
The tunes:
The Green Cottage, ( not one of the versions on The Session.)
MacLaine of Loch Buie,
and The Road to Banff.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Fiddle Girl!
Re: I need help to name a set!
Good luck, but PLEEEEEEZ!!... - if you make an amazing CD one day, *do* put the names of all the tunes on the outside cover! When people don't, and just give some snappy one-word title for a tune set, it's annoying - you don't know what you're buying (or saying no to).
I am sure the combined brain cells of The Session will come up with something, with maybe a few neural explosions on the way. But I don't know the tunes.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by nicholas
Re: I need help to name a set!
I suggest calling it:
The Green Cottage, MacLaine of Loch Buie, and The Road to Banff.
I'm not being flippant. It is you that is wasting not just your own bloody time.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: I need help to name a set!
Alternatively:
The Green Cottage / MacLaine of Loch Buie / The Road to Banff.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by mcdevincabe
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Alot of the time the name of the first tune does the job
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Bredna
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No Llig, that's boring!
I suggest combining parts of all the tune names to make something that sounds like it could make sense - but is actually nonsense. Like, in this case, I would call the set "Green Loch Banff". It conjures up the image of a green, algae-ridden loch in Banff, but the tunes are all there!
I like doing this. You can get brilliantly surreal set-names this way. For instance: the Butterfly, the Kid on the Mountain and An Phis Fhluich could become "The Butter-Phis on the Mountain".
Fun, eh!
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Joe CSS
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I was going to suggest Green Loch Banff, but I couldn't be bothered. Now you have, Joe, I have to point out, as I would have pointed out myself if it was myself who pointed it out, that it would confuse the tourists.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Pomme de Terre
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But isn't confusing tourists a noble pursuit?
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by llig leahcim
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Did you get the name for the second tune from a Cape Breton recording? Perhaps MacLean of Loch Buie might be a more accurate spelling - but then again, I might be wrong.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Ron P
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Joe CSS - keep it clean now!
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Ron P
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One of the noblest of all.
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Pomme de Terre
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I used to play a set called f**cking good craic, as the tunes were in the keys of F, Gm and C, respectively. It was a lively set though...
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by fiddle4321
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The Green McLean
Skirling Shirley (after S. MacLaine)
.....Actually, these are exactly the kind of monikers that p*ss me off when I see them in a CD tracklist in real life, but it's amusing to have a go!
I've just thought of something singularly nauseous.
MacLaine > Shirley MacLaine > New Age etc. > Findhorn, near Banff (Scotland) - so why not wrap it all up in a title like:
WHERE EAGLES CARE
.....................................................................................??!?
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by nicholas
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How about "Number Three on the Jukebox."
# Posted on December 1st 2008 by Leendah
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Ron P, I got the tune off here, from Hanneke Cassel's cd My Joy. I think you might be right about the spelling. Would you say that MacLean is the name of someone? Or a place etc? I don't know.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Fiddle Girl!
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MacLean is a surname (as are all the other "Mac..." or "Mc..." names, like MacDonald, McCusker, MacGowan, McNeill, et cetera). "Mac" in front of a name means "son of", in Gaelic - Scottish Gaelic, anyway. However, these surnames have been fixed for a long time - they don't change with the Christian names of each generation, as they do in Iceland.
(Incidentally, I know no rule by which you can tell if a particular name is spelled "Mac" or "Mc" at the beginning, if you haven't seen it in writing.)
As places don't have parents and children, you wouldn't expect them to have "Mac" names, and I imagine these are pretty unusual. I can think of Ben Macdhui, a mountain in the Cairngorms, and nothing else right now. There may be settlements and districts called after distinguished people with a "Mac" surname - industrialists, e.g. - but I can't think of examples.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by nicholas
Re: I need help to name a set!
I think you should call it "The Scottish Set", as I hope you wouldn't be the sort of person who posts on this set AND plays a lot of Scottish music. All your Irish sets, though, you'll have to work out names for themselves.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Guernsey Pete
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Only Joko.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Guernsey Pete
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Call it "MacLaine's Rambles."
Loch Buie is on the Isle of Mull off the western shore of Scotland. Banff is northeast across on the eastern shore of Scotland. Even being the stout and hardy chieftain he is, he couldn't have made it in one hoofing, so he had to stay at the Green Cottage aloung the way, possibly at Newtonmore. I would like to make such a treck myself one day.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Tadhg mac Saoirse
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Or you could call it A95 as that is the Road to Banff he would take nowadays.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Tadhg mac Saoirse
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How about "The Mess"? A polka into a reel into a jig ? Love to hear how you'll handle the changes.
# Posted on December 2nd 2008 by Kenny
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Well, first you would play eighth notes, then you would play triplets, then you would play sixteenth notes.
# Posted on December 3rd 2008 by Tadhg mac Saoirse
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I agree with llig. About the name of the set, that is, not about you wasting our bloody time, after all, questions are what this discussion section of the Yellow Board are all about.
Sometimes in the pub, as a bit of shorthand, we will say "How about Banish Misfortune?" and because everyone has played together for a while, we all know that Garrett Barry's Jig will be following it. But naming a set after the first tune in the set (such as The Green Cottage Set) is about as far as I would go down that road.
# Posted on December 3rd 2008 by AlBrown
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Hey Nicholas, thanks for the information.
# Posted on December 4th 2008 by Fiddle Girl!
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Kenny, The Green Cottage 'I' play is a jig, not a polka ( it's a different arrangement, written by a New Zealander ,) so I handle the changes fine. I have quite a bit of fun crossing over from 6/8 to 4/4 to 6/8.
# Posted on December 4th 2008 by Fiddle Girl!
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My first barn-dance band used to do that on some dances, to keep things lively, if there was a marked verse/chorus sort of difference between the two parts. Or go into Atholl Highlanders for the last time through The Cumberland Square Eight.
# Posted on December 6th 2008 by Guernsey Pete