Apart from the obligatory burns stuff, any suggestion for tunes for a burns night session? Are Shetland tunes acceptable? Most of my repertoire is Shetland tunes, so i'm a bit stuffed if they're not. I'm doing a burns night with our morris side and I'm guessing they won't want to hear morris tunes! I'll have to print out some music fairly sharpish though....
Dashing White Sergeant
Devil Among the Tailors
Mason's Apron
Miss Mcleod's Reel
Tamlin (Glasgow)
Jig of Slurs
Stool of Repentance
Gaelic Club
Bluebells of Scotland
Gay Gordons
Mairi's Wedding
93rds Farewell to Gibraltar
72nds Farewell to Aberdeen
74th Highlanders Quickstep
Barren Rocks of Aden
Midlothian Pipe Band
Angus Campbell
Scotland the Brave
Athole Highlanders
Highland Cradle song (if you need a waltz)
Sorry, I didn't read the name after the comment....just had a thought about playing in 'A'.....the melodion player just isn't going to get there is he? So much for diatonics then...Ha ha ha!
I suppose we'll have a rousing rendition of Scotland the Brave at some point, have to draw the line at Flower of Scotland though...
Never been to a Burns night, but here are some more potential tunes:
The Beauty of the North
The Iron Man
MacDonald of the Isles March to Harlaw
Earl Grey
Craigellachie Brig
Largo's Fairy Reel
High Road to Linton
Devil in the Kitchen
King George IV
Drumnagarry
The Left-Handed Fiddler
Lochiel's Awa' Tae France
Rob Roy MacGregor
Chapel Keithak
Mrs. Jamieson's Favourite
St. Kilda Wedding
Jenny Dang the Weaver
Lady Charlotte Campbell's
Stirling Castle
The Sound of Sleat
There's always Scott-Skinner. Laird of Drumblair and Music o' Spey are on our list. We havinbg our bash on Saturday instead of the proper day itself this year.
Freddy - you'll have to get thet melodeon player of yours to upgrade to a three-rwo
By the way, we also have to play for a Burns night, and your thread kinda focussed my my mind on the need to do a bit of a practice!
Something else to think about. Will your caller be doing the Eightsome Reel? That's a traditional dance at a Burns night. It can be a bit of a nightmare, as it's 464 bars long, you need 5 tunes for it and the music "formula" is quite complex:
Beginning Section
-------------------------
Devil Among the Tailors - AAABB = 40 bars
Middle Section
--------------------
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
mix- being a former highland piper i'm very familiar with the tune as a retreat . i can't recall ever hearing the song you mention. Also i'm better at playing "Trunckles" than i am at spelling it
There was a soldier,
A Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
There was none bolder,
With good broad shoulder
He's fought in many a fray,
And fought and won.
He'd seen the glory
And told the story
Of battles glorious
And deeds neforious
But now he's sighing,
His heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol.
Chorus
----------
Because these green hills
Are not highland hills
Or the island hills,
The're not my land's hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.
2. And now this soldier,
This Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling
And death is calling
And he will fade away,
In that far land.
He called his piper,
His trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay
A pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside,
A Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol.
(Chorus)
3. And so this soldier,
This Scottish soldier
Will wander far no more
And soldier far no more
And on a hillside,
A Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play
His soldier home.
He'd seen the glory,
He'd told his story
Of battles glorious
And deeds victorious
The bugles cease now,
He is at peace now
Far from those green hills of Tyrol.
Burns Night tunes
Burns Night tunes
Apart from the obligatory burns stuff, any suggestion for tunes for a burns night session? Are Shetland tunes acceptable? Most of my repertoire is Shetland tunes, so i'm a bit stuffed if they're not. I'm doing a burns night with our morris side and I'm guessing they won't want to hear morris tunes! I'll have to print out some music fairly sharpish though....
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Freddy Frog
Re: Burns Night tunes
A few suggestions:
Dashing White Sergeant
Devil Among the Tailors
Mason's Apron
Miss Mcleod's Reel
Tamlin (Glasgow)
Jig of Slurs
Stool of Repentance
Gaelic Club
Bluebells of Scotland
Gay Gordons
Mairi's Wedding
93rds Farewell to Gibraltar
72nds Farewell to Aberdeen
74th Highlanders Quickstep
Barren Rocks of Aden
Midlothian Pipe Band
Angus Campbell
Scotland the Brave
Athole Highlanders
Highland Cradle song (if you need a waltz)
... to name but a few!
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Two more!
Cock of the North
Glendurrel Highlanders
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Morris you say - what about "Highland Mary", then?
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Highland mary is the tune we play at outs when the dancers have a rest. Not sure it's scottish though. Thanks for the suggestions so far, guys.
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Freddy Frog
Re: Burns Night tunes
Guys? It's only been me making suggestions so far!
Another thought: can your tea-chest bassist play in "A"
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
You could finish the evening with:
Green Hills (a retreat march)
and
We'll Noo Awa' that Bides Awa'
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Sorry, I didn't read the name after the comment....just had a thought about playing in 'A'.....the melodion player just isn't going to get there is he? So much for diatonics then...Ha ha ha!
I suppose we'll have a rousing rendition of Scotland the Brave at some point, have to draw the line at Flower of Scotland though...
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Freddy Frog
Re: Burns Night tunes
Never been to a Burns night, but here are some more potential tunes:
The Beauty of the North
The Iron Man
MacDonald of the Isles March to Harlaw
Earl Grey
Craigellachie Brig
Largo's Fairy Reel
High Road to Linton
Devil in the Kitchen
King George IV
Drumnagarry
The Left-Handed Fiddler
Lochiel's Awa' Tae France
Rob Roy MacGregor
Chapel Keithak
Mrs. Jamieson's Favourite
St. Kilda Wedding
Jenny Dang the Weaver
Lady Charlotte Campbell's
Stirling Castle
The Sound of Sleat
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by jasonb
Re: Burns Night tunes
There's always Scott-Skinner. Laird of Drumblair and Music o' Spey are on our list. We havinbg our bash on Saturday instead of the proper day itself this year.
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Steve Shaw
Re: Burns Night tunes
Freddy - you'll have to get thet melodeon player of yours to upgrade to a three-rwo
By the way, we also have to play for a Burns night, and your thread kinda focussed my my mind on the need to do a bit of a practice!
Something else to think about. Will your caller be doing the Eightsome Reel? That's a traditional dance at a Burns night. It can be a bit of a nightmare, as it's 464 bars long, you need 5 tunes for it and the music "formula" is quite complex:
Beginning Section
-------------------------
Devil Among the Tailors - AAABB = 40 bars
Middle Section
--------------------
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
(Another Reel - AABBAB) x 2 = 96 bars
End Section
----------------
Devil Among the Tailors - AAABB = 40 bars
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Typo. I meant, three-row, of course...
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
We don't have a caller or anything, it's just a music session in a small pub - there's no room for dancing anyhow!
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Freddy Frog
Re: Burns Night tunes
Mix- " The Green Hills of Tyroll" ? is that the tune youmean? (retreat) lovely tune.
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by pipewatcher
Re: Burns Night tunes
and speaking of "morris" tunes, does anyone still play "Truckles"?...
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by pipewatcher
Re: Burns Night tunes
Freddy - no worries about the eightsome reel, then!
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Yes, that's the one Pipes - "The Green Hills of Tyrol". Many Scottish pipers refer to it just as "Green Hills"
When done as a song, it's known as "the Scottish soldier", and sung in a major key.
I prefer it as a retreat march myself, with the flattened seventh. What say you?
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Pipes - the tune that you referred to is actually called "Trunckles".
It's one of the dances/tunes that's part of the Bampton tradition (the latter being a trraditional side).
So the Bampton side would certainly be playing it for that particular dance, and so would plenty of other Morris sides too.
Don't play it myself though - but if you hummed it, I would certainly recognise it.
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
As well as Highland Mary, Flowers of Edinburgh is another Morris tune with Scottish origins.
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by cathycook
Re: Burns Night tunes
Mull Of Kintyre
I Am Sailing
The Welly-Boot Song
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(someone addressing a haggis....)
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by nicholas
Re: Burns Night tunes
Oh dear, The characters have blown back and the haggis has exploded. It did look better than that...
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by nicholas
Re: Burns Night tunes
mix- being a former highland piper i'm very familiar with the tune as a retreat . i can't recall ever hearing the song you mention. Also i'm better at playing "Trunckles" than i am at spelling it
# Posted on January 23rd 2009 by pipewatcher
Re: Burns Night tunes
Addressing the haggis, Nicholas?
You forgot the postcode (zip code) !
# Posted on January 24th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Scottish Soldier
Pipes - Here are the lyrics to the song:
There was a soldier,
A Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
There was none bolder,
With good broad shoulder
He's fought in many a fray,
And fought and won.
He'd seen the glory
And told the story
Of battles glorious
And deeds neforious
But now he's sighing,
His heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol.
Chorus
----------
Because these green hills
Are not highland hills
Or the island hills,
The're not my land's hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.
2. And now this soldier,
This Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away
And soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling
And death is calling
And he will fade away,
In that far land.
He called his piper,
His trusty piper
And bade him sound a lay
A pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside,
A Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol.
(Chorus)
3. And so this soldier,
This Scottish soldier
Will wander far no more
And soldier far no more
And on a hillside,
A Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play
His soldier home.
He'd seen the glory,
He'd told his story
Of battles glorious
And deeds victorious
The bugles cease now,
He is at peace now
Far from those green hills of Tyrol.
(Chorus)
# Posted on January 24th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Pipewatcher - if we ever get to meet, if you can play those pipes of yours and sing this song at the same time, I'll buy you a pint!
# Posted on January 24th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Burns Night tunes
Thanks Mix- for the song and the offer.
cheers, pipewatcher
# Posted on January 24th 2009 by pipewatcher