Key signature: Bdorian
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.
Also known as Major Malley.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Major Molle
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Bdor
|:Bffe dcBA|Bffe d2c2|Bffg (3aaa af|ecAc e2dc:|
BF (3FFF dBcA|BF (3FFF d2 cd|1BF (3FFF dBce|
cAAc e2 dc:|2Bffg (3aaa af|ecAc e2 dc||
Major molle
also known as major mole..A Highland Schottische (CMaj). Noted in Kerrs collection of Merry Melodies for violin
# Posted on July 25th 2004 by oakeydoke
What's a schottische?
# Posted on July 25th 2004 by Dow
Major Molle
A Schottische is a dance.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
But it's also a tune genre is it not?...like "reel" or "jig". How do you define it in that sense?
# Posted on July 25th 2004 by Dow
Schottische - Dance
This comes from a dance web site and may (or may not) clarify the issue.
"-- In 1850, there appeared in all parts of Europe, the Schottische (shot-teesh), a round dance which had been executed in Bavaria under the name "Reinlander" (rine-lant-er). In the Rheinish (sp?) countries, the Schottische was known as the "Bavarian Polka". Two sisters from Odessa, returning from Hungary did a variation to the Rheinlander called the "Hungarian Waltz" which became very popular with all who saw.
-- However, the word Schottische is from Germany, not Scotland, even though the
correct name of the dance is Scottish, (the Germans refereed to it as Schottische for some reason.)"(They are Germans after all, and if they didn't invent it, they can rename it and call it their own.)
Initially these were written in 2/4 time but played slowly - there are some western (US) versions of this done as a round dance ...
So it's a dcance tune with a lumpy rhythm -
# Posted on July 27th 2004 by 2situla
Major Molle
Jigs and reels are dances too.Don't put the cart before the horse.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
16 bars = Highland Fling
But hey, they all get mixed up in time and distance from the dances they used to accompany, Highland Flings, Highlands, Flings, Schottisches, Germans, Hornpipes. However, the 16 bars are the usual for the Highland Fling, which now by many survives as a single reel usually, sometimes as a double reel or even a double hornpipe. The dances, for 2, 3 and 4 dancers, also were on the whole 16 bars in length. The one thing they all did share was the basic traveling step, a 'skip-change', or what some call 'hop-1-2-3', however, the hop usually isn't quite a hop but more of a skip, or just lifting the heel and dropping it down again, light and low to the ground - at least amongst what were considered the 'better' dancers, judged on experience, skill and consideration of others...including the musicians and the music...
Do a search on this site if you want more, using any of the key words - as given in the first paragraph...
# Posted on August 7th 2004 by ceolachan
Thankyou to those of you who made an effort to be genuinely helpful and answer my question.
# Posted on September 29th 2004 by Dow