i'm not sure how to ask this question in the tunes section, sorry, but i've been unable to find this tune, which i heard on an old elke baker recording, either here or on nigel gatherer's website. does anyone know it, play it? i know it's scottish, but only from its sound (must be a strathspey). and i'm not really asking for it to be included, just want to know more about it.
yes, i see the injunction against requesting tunes in this section, but it's not strictly a request for the tune.
Some time ago I entered a tune here called Blackhall Rocks, a reworking of The Ruffian's Rant as a medium-slow 3/4 air by Ged Foley when he was in the Battlefield Band. Here is the link:
You might know enough about the long notes and short notes and snaps and things to turn it back into a strathspey or a schottische or whatever it originally was; I'm not sure I do! The original Ruffian's Rant tune, incidentally, is to be found in the Charlton Memorial Tune Book, a collection geared really towards Northumbrian pipers but of course containing tunes playable on a variety of instruments.
ruffian's rant
ruffian's rant
i'm not sure how to ask this question in the tunes section, sorry, but i've been unable to find this tune, which i heard on an old elke baker recording, either here or on nigel gatherer's website. does anyone know it, play it? i know it's scottish, but only from its sound (must be a strathspey). and i'm not really asking for it to be included, just want to know more about it.
yes, i see the injunction against requesting tunes in this section, but it's not strictly a request for the tune.
# Posted on June 4th 2011 by 'tinamatt
Re: ruffian's rant
Plenty of information here.
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/RP_RZ.htm
# Posted on June 4th 2011 by Scorpion de Rooftrouser
Re: ruffian's rant
Some time ago I entered a tune here called Blackhall Rocks, a reworking of The Ruffian's Rant as a medium-slow 3/4 air by Ged Foley when he was in the Battlefield Band. Here is the link:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6423
# Posted on June 4th 2011 by nicholas
Re: ruffian's rant
You might know enough about the long notes and short notes and snaps and things to turn it back into a strathspey or a schottische or whatever it originally was; I'm not sure I do! The original Ruffian's Rant tune, incidentally, is to be found in the Charlton Memorial Tune Book, a collection geared really towards Northumbrian pipers but of course containing tunes playable on a variety of instruments.
# Posted on June 4th 2011 by nicholas
Re: ruffian's rant
Its earliest known form is as "Cog na Scalan" in the Macfarlan Manuscript, 1740.
# Posted on June 4th 2011 by Jack Campin
Re: ruffian's rant
thanks all!
# Posted on June 5th 2011 by 'tinamatt
Re: ruffian's rant
http://imslp.org/wiki/Aird%27s_Selection_of_Scotch,_English,_Irish_and_Foreign_Airs_%28Various%29
volume 2 pg. 42 #114
(pg. 44 in PDF)
# Posted on June 5th 2011 by Ben Steen