Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on by Dr. Dow.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as The Lass And The Money Is All My Own, Port Patrick.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Portpatrick
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|:e|dBG GAB|(3cdc B A2e|dBG GAB|A2B (3cdc e|
dBG GAB|(3cdc B A2D|BdB AcA|BGF G2:|
|:d|ece dBd|ece ~d3|efg dBG|A2B (3cdc e|
def {a}gfe|dcB A2D|BdB AcA|BGF G2:|
Good old-fashioned name eh?! I reckoned it should have been "The Lass And The Money Are..." but there you go. This is a traditional Northumbrian jig, although I think its style is virtually the same as Irish. I like this tune a lot so I thought I'd let you know of its existence.
# Posted on December 12th 2002 by Dr. Dow
The Lass and the money is all my own
On paper, this jig does look as though it could be Irish and I have beenn thinking about what makes its Northumbrian. Of course, its the way itis played. Northumbrian playing (on all instruments)is heavily influenced by the staccatto closed-fingered sound of the Northumbrian Smallpipes. Northumbrian playing is very articulated whien compared with other British & Irish traditions and there is space between all the notes.This makes the grace notes very important and they often bring a rater simple tune to life.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on December 15th 2002 by noelbats
I agree. Also Northumbrian and Scottish jigs are sometimes played a bit like 6/8 pipes marches with lots of dotted rhythms, although I prefer to play this one w/o.
# Posted on December 15th 2002 by Dr. Dow
The Lass And The Money Is All My Own
I've always suspected that this might be originally Scottish, and it looks as though that might be the case. Apparently it appears in highland pipes anthologies, and in one of the earliest Scottish collections it is entitled "Portpatrick". It also appears in Aird's Airs and Melodies Vol.1 under the title "Port Patrick"; you can find this G major setting at JC's tunefinder.
If it did originate in Scotland, it came to the northeast of England and entered the Northumbrian tradition fairly early on, and it appears in Vickers (1770) in the key of A. The abc for that setting is below:
K:A
|:f|ecA ABc|d2c B2A|ecA ABc|B2c d2f|
ecA ABc|dcB B2A|cec BdB|A2A A2:|
|:e|fdf ece|fdf ece|fga ecA|B2c d2f|
efg agf|edc B2A|cec BdB|A2A A2:|
This is presumably the setting that was transposed into G and used for the minstrelsy a century later.
I quite like the setting that appears in Abraham Mackintosh's tunebook from the early 19th century:
K:A
|:f|ecA ABc|d2c B2A|ecA ecA|B2c d2f|
ecA ABc|d2c B2A|c/d/ec dBe|cAA A2:|
|:e|fdf ece|fdf ece|fga edc|B2c d2f|
efg agf|edc B2A|c/d/ec dBe|cAA A2:|
Apparently this tune is or was known under a number of titles, and I'd be interested if anyone here knows it by another name.
# Posted on August 16th 2004 by Dr. Dow
Hmmm, when I entered "Port Patrick" in the alternative names section, a recording suddenly appeared. How satisfying. So it seems that this tune isn't as obscure as I thought...
# Posted on August 16th 2004 by Dr. Dow
Portpatrick
I was surprised to find this in O'Neill's in the key of G under it's original title.
# Posted on May 19th 2005 by Dr. Dow
its
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Dr. Dow
http://www.portpatrick.net/
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Weejie
Port Patrick
Clarsach player Alison Kinnaird, in her 1978 album 'The Harp Key' says about this, "Another Rory Dall air, again from Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, this time with a variation in 6/8 time. The title does not refer to a place. 'Port'...simply means 'tune'."
Blind Roderick Morison, or Rory Dall (c1660-1713) was the harper to the MacLeods on the island of Skye. Unfortunately there was another Rory Dall: an Irish harper called Rory Dall O'Cathain who travelled around Scotland in the 17th century, and there is much confusion about which Rory Dall was the source of which tunes. According to Kinnaird, "It is possible that those pieces collected in Perthshire, such as 'Port Atholl' or 'Port Patrick' were by the Irish Rory Dall, but it does seem likely that the tunes were composed in Scotland, partly because of their titles, and also because most of them are in a 'Scottish style'."
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by nigelg
I don't have Vol 12 of Oswald's Pocket Companion, but I don't think it attributes the tune to either "Blind Rory". It does seem quite likely that the word "port" is from the Gàidhlig (which could mean tune or port, but the former seems more likely). "Gordon" and "Patrick" both have "ports" in the Oswald books (as well as "Atholl" and "Rory Dall"), but that is as far as it goes.
There are ports, in the geographical sense, with those names too, though Port Gordon was founded after the publication of the Oswald books.
The "Scottish style" that Alison suggests is rather subjective.
It's still open to debate, IMHO.
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Weejie
As for the Geordie title, FARNE :
Title : Lass and the money is all my own
Also known as : Churlish husband ; Cutting at the broom ; Intrepid ; Lucky kitchens reel ; Patties whim ; ....
...Abraham Mackintosh, a Scottish fiddler livng in Newcastle in the early 19th century, recorded the tune under a title nearly identical to this, showing that it was still known locally under this name, perhaps with associated lyrics. (Wm Christie (Aberdeenshire, 1820) also recorded a completely different tune with a similar title.) Otherwise, it occurs in many collections under different names, Portpatrick in James Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion being one of the earliest. It was used as the melody for the local song Sawney Ogilvie's Duel With His Wife. It also occurs in Highland pipe anthologies.
http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detail.asp?id=R0302902
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Weejie
"Oswald's Pocket Companion"
I'd love to see an ABC or dots for that transcription, if anyone comes across it...
Here's a rehash of Mark's original submission ~
X: 1
T: Portpatrick
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
|: e |\
dBG GAB | c/d/cB A2 e | dBG GAB | A2 B c/d/ce |
dBG GAB | c/d/cB A2 D | BdB AcA | BGF G2 :|
|: d |\
ece dBd | ece ~d3 | efg dBG | A2 B c/d/ce |
def gfe | dcB A2 D | BdB AcA | BGF G2 :|
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by ceolachan
"Oswald's Pocket Companion"
Well, I do have it, so I was going to do a quick transcription, but can I find it? Eventually I went up to the attic and still couldn't find it (it's like looking for a needle in a haystack), but I did find an old VHS tape of me playing in a band in the early 1990s which I was sure was lost forever. When I find Oswald, I'll do you the ABC.
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by nigelg
It's a pocket companion, Nigel. Try looking in an old pocket.
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Weejie
http://www.scotmus.com/music/bremner/guitar-collection/012.html
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by Weejie
"Portpatrick" ~ from the dots at the end of the link, and transposed for comparison's sake
http://www.scotmus.com/music/bremner/guitar-collection/012.html
Bremner's Guitar Collection, 1758 - Robert Bremner's Instructions for the Guitar; with a Collection of Airs, Songs and Duets fitted for that Instrument (1758) is both an instrumental tutor and a diverse collection of graded pieces for the popular 6-course Baroque guitar (tuned in open C). The introductory tutorial is one the earliest for this instrument, containing handy information about contemporary performance practice. The following 35 graded pieces pedagogically work out from simple song and dance tunes to more complex material, mixing together both Scottish and common British repertoire. This ScotMus.com album is a complete transcription of the Edinburgh 1st edition of 1758.
X: 4
T: Portpatrick
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Cmaj
|: a |\
gec cde | f2 e d2 c | gec cdc | [G2d2] e f2 a |
gec cde | [d2f2] [ce] [G2d2] c | ege fdg | ecc c2 :|
|: g |\
afa geg | afa geg | abc' gfe | [[G2d2] [ce] [d2f2] a |
gab c'ba | gfe d2 c | ege fdg | ecc [C2c2] :|
K: Gmaj
|: e |\
dBG GAB | c2 B A2 G | dBG GAG | [D2A2] B c2 e |
dBG GAB | [A2c2] [GB] [D2A2] G | BdB cAd | BGG G2 :|
|: d |\
ece dBd | ece dBd | efg dcB | [D2A2] [GB] [A2c2] e |
def gfe | dcB A2 G | BdB cAd | BGG [G,2G2] :|
# Posted on January 23rd 2012 by ceolachan
Oswald's version...
I treated myself. The version from Vol 12 of Oswald's Pocket Companion:
X: 1
T: Port Patrick
M: C
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: A
f|\
ecBA A2 Bc|dcBA B3 f|ecBA A3 A|BABc e3 f|
ecBA A3 Bc|fcBA B2 AB|c2 fa ec B/c/e|{d}c2 BA A2:|
|:e|\
f2 af e2 ce|f2 af e3 e|fefa ecBA|BABc d3 f|
e2 fg agfe|faec B2 AB|c2 af ec B/c/e|c2 BA A2:|
M:6/8
f|\
ecA ABc|d2 c B2 A|ecA ABA|B2 c d2 f|
ecA ABc|d2 c B2 A|c/d/ec dBe|cAA A2:|
|:e|\
fdf ece|fdf ece|fga ecA|B2 c d2 f|
efg agf|edc B2 A|c/d/ec dBe|cAA A2:|
Some interesting notes accompany Nick Parkes' facsimile from John Purser:
"Oswald is the first to publish a common time version, but his jigg variation is very close to
Johnson’s “Irish Jigg”. Portpatrick is in the south-west of Scotland and was the main point of
departure for Northern Ireland in former times, and it is probably to the port that the title
refers, rather than to the early tune types known as Ports, although Keith Sanger and Alison
Kinnaird 1992 Appendix D p217, list it as a harp tune. “Annie and Colin” (Book IX) is an
alternative version of the same tune."
# Posted on February 1st 2012 by Weejie
Nice one Weejie, so are you going to give the reel take a go and come back and add your take on it later?
# Posted on February 1st 2012 by ceolachan
A bit flowery for my taste, Ceol. I need to get my harp strung up again, it would suit that.
# Posted on February 1st 2012 by Weejie