Key signature: Gminor
Submitted on May 29th 2003 by grymater.
This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.
Also known as Shakin's O' The Pocky, The Shakin's O' The Pocky.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Shakin' O' The Pocky
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Gmin
D2 C2 B,3D | F3G FD2B, | z3A B2 BA | GA Bc d4 | z4 e3c | d3B c3A | B2 G2 F3D | B3D E2 D2 | \
C2 DC B,3D | F3G F2 D2 | B,3A B2 B2 | GA Bc d4 | z4 e3c | d3B c3A | B2 G2 F2 ED | \
E2 C2 B,4 | z4 b3f | d3B g2 e2 | c2 a2 b2 g2 | e2 c2 f4 | z2 ga b3f | d3B g2 e2 | \
c2 B2 "0 4"[A2A2] "0 4"[AA]B | cf2A B4 | z2 f/g/a b3f | d3B g2 e2 | c2 a2 b2 g2 | \
e2 c2 f4 | z2 e2 d3B | e3c dc BA | B4 z2 G2 | F4 zF ED | FE3 zE DC | B,4 z4 | z4 z4 | \
Forgive Me
I transcribed this one from the version on "My Roots Are Showing" by Natalie MacMaster. She plays it as slow air, but it is a strathspey, so that's how I tagged it, lest the purists attack me for corruption of the Scottish nomenclature. Hunt around the web to hear this tune played as a strathspey...the interpretation is interesting. I'm not sure if I gave the right key when submitting it, but it's transcribed in B flat major.
# Posted on May 29th 2003 by grymater
Grymater, I believe this tune is a composition of Niel Gow (don't ask which one) and was intended as a 'slow strathspey'. Thes are tunes, particularly popular among Scottish fiddle composers in the 18th and 19th centuries, which follow the structure of a strathspey, but are played as listening tunes, never as dance tunes. Although they are written in regular metre, they are usually played heavily 'rubato' - i.e. not in strict time - much like an irish slow air.
# Posted on May 30th 2003 by granama
This is an unusual composition in that it is the result of a collaboration between Peter Milne and his more famous pupil J Scott Skinner. The title is a reference to an occasion when both were so poor they had to club together to buy a dram. Presumably they had two straws.
David is right to suggest that it is a strathspey for listening rather than dancing. The original key is B flat.
# Posted on June 4th 2003 by iainr