Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Also known as The Brown Haired Maid.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Ridhe Mo Nigheen Donn
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:d2 cd BAFA|BAFE DF A2|d2 cd BAFA|1EBBA B2c2:|2EBBA ~B3 B||
AD (3DDD AD F2|BAFE DF A2|1AD (3DDD AD F2|
EBBA ~B3 B:|2 d2 cd BAFA|EBBA B2c2||
This melody really sounds familiar to me, but I don't remember where I heard it. According to my poor knowledge of Gaelic, it means something like "my brown-haird girl." What does the first word mean?
# Posted on June 20th 2004 by slainte
AKA The Brown Haired Maid
Nice tune, but unfortunately incomplete... I know a 6-part version for the Highland pipes.
# Posted on June 20th 2004 by no longer exists
Just a folk tune, nothing to see...
I think Ridhe or ridhle is just reel, isn't it?
This didn't exist in more than two parts up until the early 20th century, AFAIK, when it was just one more gaelic pipe reel in G.
The six-parter in A is just Donald MacLeod showing off how many variations he can write, and I don't think he did it any favours putting it in A. For a good pipe setting, see GS MacLennan's...now *that* is a setting for pipes. Eight parts and not a cheesy variation amongst them.
Another good 'variation' is Allan MacDonald's Tar the House.
# Posted on June 21st 2004 by Calum
on iain morrisons recording.... in A, there is G natural.....so here there would be a C natural
# Posted on December 26th 2008 by rob_heron
Ridhe Mo Nigheen Donn
When played on Highland Pipes or Smallpipes the 7th is natural because you don't have a sharp G. The correct version, which can be played on border pipes has the sharpened 7th.
# Posted on December 26th 2008 by bogman