Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on December 15th 2007 by niall_kenny.
This tune has been added to 9 tunebooks.
Also known as Mrs Gordon, Mrs Gordon's, Mrs Gordon's Reel Uvie, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Gordon's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Mrs Gordon's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
D2 Ad cdAd|cdef gecA|d2 Ad cdAd|BAGF EDCA,:|
dDFA fDFA|dDFA dcBA|eE^GB gEGB|eE^GB edce|
dDFA fDFA|dDFA dcBA|GABc defg|faBe dcBA||
Written by William Marshall and first published in 1822. Thanks to Andrew Kuntz's "Fiddler's Companion" site for the transcription. Has distinct similarities to McGoldrick's
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1360
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by niall_kenny
This isn't already here?
I continue to be surprised...
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Is there a reason why it should be here already?
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Yes, it isn't, at least with me, 'uncommon'...
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Including the William Marshall collection...
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by ceolachan
It could be a fluke, we do have a friend who is very fond of the William Marshall stuff...
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by ceolachan
"Mrs. Gordon’s Reel" ~ probably polluted by related tunes
X: 2
T: Mrs. Gordon’s Reel
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: D
|: F/G/A |\
d2 Ad BdAd | B/c/d ef g2 ec |
d2 Ad B/c/d A2 | BAGE ED :|
|: ce |\
dDFA fFAc | dD F/G/A d2 cA |
[1 eE^GB =gE^GE | e2 E/^G/B e2 :|
[2 GABc d2 e/f/g | fa e/d/c d2 |]
# Posted on December 15th 2007 by ceolachan
Well, Lord Gordon's is popular enough, being a Coleman classic, and I hear it paired occasionally with Lady Gordon's at the sessions I go to, but I've never heard of a Mrs. Gordon, and certainly never heard this tune in a session or on a recording for that matter. I don't recognise it at all. Not that it's not a nice tune - it's lovely. The 1st part reminds me of the Humours of Tulla, McGoldrick's Reel (as Niall pointed out) and tunes like Sollus Lillis'. Which sessions have you heard it at, 'c'? Scottish sessions? Where did you pick it up? Do you have a recording of the tune?
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by Dr. Dow
I enjoy the lydian phrases in the B-part. Seems to have been in fashion with the early Scottish tunes like the Bob of Fettercairn http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5873, although I can think of a couple of Irish tunes that have the same feature. Ed Reavy in particular used it to great effect in the Letterkenny Blacksmith http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4743.
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Cape Breton, wouldn't you know...
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
William Marshall
http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/fiddle/marshall.htm
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
"Willliam Marshall’s Scottish Melodies" ~ released Summer, 2007
http://www.cranfordpub.com/
Someone else we knew also had re-released the Marshall collection, I think it was back in the 80s, and was fond of his music... Our copy is in the care of another or I'd add the specifics. It doesn't seem to still be available, not that edition...
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
"Willliam Marshall’s Scottish Melodies" ~ more ~
"262 Strathspeys, Reels, Hornpipes, Marches, Jigs & Airs. A new edition by Randy Miller, Fiddlecase books. 2007, 322 pages, 7"x 8.5". All of Marshall's known compositions are included.
William Marshall (1748-1833) is regarded as one of the greatest composers of Scottish fiddle music. His tunes have been played for generations, passed down from fiddler to fiddler to the present day in Cape Breton and parts of Scotland.
Included is a map, illustrations and the unabridged 1845 biography of Marshall. Also contains four reference appendices. "
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
http://www.randymillerprints.com/Marshallbook.html
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
Now we're getting somewhere
So are you saying then, that this is a common tune in Cape Breton?
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by Dr. Dow
Well, no, I did say it could be a fluke, but some folks did and do play this in Cape Breton... We had also learned it for playing for the square sets... I'll check and see if I have it here on a recording or transcribed from someone else's playing. We don't have a lot of our Cape Breton commercial recordings on hand, and the fieldwork I did is over 100 hours and mostly oral history, and that needs to be redone, redigitized, as you'll know, having had that hard drive fry on us and turn all our audio and graphic files into mush, when recovered. Fear has me moving back in that direction slowly.
Hey, have you got it in for me or something lately? Oh how I wish I could find those pictures to elfitize you... You'd make the perfect elf...
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
Nah ~ pookah!
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Marshall Collections" ~ courtesy of the Highland Music Trust
http://www.heallan.com/
http://www.heallan.com/marshall.html
I love these editions... I wish I had them all...
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan
6 Collections of the music of William Marshall (1748 - 1833) of Fochabers in Morayshire, one of Scotland’s greatest fiddler-composers.
# Posted on December 16th 2007 by ceolachan