The Battle Of Killiecrankie

barndance

Key signature: Cmajor

Submitted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 14 tunebooks.

Also known as Battle Of Killicrankie, The Battle Of Killicrankie, Battle Of Killiecrankie, Gilliecrankie, Killecrankie, Killiecrankie, The Killiecrankie March, Killycrankie.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

Colin Grant by Colin Grant
Homeward Way by Bards Of A Feather
Legacy Of The Scottish Fiddle Vol. 2 by Alasdair Fraser, Muriel Johnstone And Natalie Haas
Mac Morin by Mac Morin
Mike MacDougall's Tape For Father Hector by Mike MacDougall
Souvenir Of Scotland by Hamish MacGregor And The Blue Bonnets
The Dusky Meadow by Donald MacLellan With Doug MacPhee
The Ladies From Hell by The Black Watch

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: Battle Of Killiecrankie, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Cmaj
C6 |: E>F |
E<G-G>A G2 E2 | G>EG<A G2 E2 | G>FE>D CDE<F | G4 G2 E<G |
A3 c A2 G2 | A>GA>B A2 G<E | c2 cd e2 dc | A4 A2 e>g |
a2 g>e g2 e>d | e2 d>c e3 d | cBA<G c2 E2 | G4 G2 cB |
A2 GA c2 Ac | d2 cd e3 d | c>BA<G c2 E2 |1 D4 C2 :|
2 D4 C4 ||
e<g-g>a g2 e2 | g>ega g2 e2 | g>fe<d c>de<f | g4 g2 e<g |
a3 c' a2 g2 | a>ga>c' a2 g2 | a>ge<d c>de<g | a4 a2 a<c' |
g2 e>d e2 d>c | d2 c<d e3 d | c>BA<G c2 E2 | G4 G2 cB |
A2 GA c2 Ac | d2 cd e3 d | c>BA<G c2 E2 |1 D4 C4 :|
2 D4 C2 ||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

"The Battle of Killiecrankie" ~ march, a Cape Breton setting

I've several takes on this lovely march, slow and a bit more up tempo. This transcription is taken from a rough recording of Mike MacDougall. It is the first tune in the fifth medly on his "Tape for Father Hector", Cranford Publications, and entered on site here.

I'll return with some other versions and keys for this lovely march later... In some cases it is played without repeats and in another version it is basically only the A-part, for which the B-part is really only a variation that takes it up an octave for part of the melody. I don't think I've heard a version of it I didn't like...

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

"Killiecrankie" ~ K: C Major

This is from Cecil Sharp's collecting:
"Country Dance Tunes", 1909

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

"Killiecrankie" ~ The Fiddler's Companion - Andrew Kuntz

~ links to other ABC's and to valued information:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html

Alphabetic search
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html

Killiecrankie 1 & 2
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/KIC_KISI.htm#KILLICRANKIE_[1]

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

"Planxty Davis" ~ 2/4 ( polka category ) & a sibling

Submitted on May 3rd 2004 by John J.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2937

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

"The Battle of Killiecrankie" ~ some notes via The Fiddler's Companion

Scottish, Air and Slow March (cut time). D Major (Aird, O’Farrell): C Major (most versions). Standard. One part = A (Sharp): Two parts = AB (Johnson, Perlman): AABB (Aird): Four parts (variations) =AABBCCDD (O’Farrell). O’Farrell (c. 1806) directs: “Slow.” There appear to be two main versions of “Killiecrankie” tunes, according to Paul Roberts, a Lowland/Williamite version and a Gaelic/Jacobite one...

Scottish, Irish; Slow March (2/4 time) or Set Dance (cut time). D Major. Standard. AB (Kerr): AABB (Roche).

The title commemorates the famous Battle of Killiecrankie, Perthshire, in 1689. ~ the earliest printing of the song appears to be in the Leyden Manuscript of c. 1692, according to John Glen (Early Scottish Melodies). Glen further states: “That portion of (“Killiecrankie”) which is sung to the chorus is still more ancient; it forms part of the tune called “My Mistres blush is bonny” (sic) in the Skene Manuscripts” (c. 1615).

Notes on 'style':

McGibbon's "Scots Tunes, book II", 1746 ~ "Brisk."

The Gow's 1st Repository, 1799 ~ “very slow.”

O'Farrell's "Pocket Companion, vol. II", 1806 ~ "Slow."

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

"Killiecrankie" & the Canadian Maritimes

Played by Maritime fiddlers including on the islands of Cape Breton and Prince Edward...

# Posted on July 14th 2006 by ceolachan

Mike MacDougall's tempo ~ 4/4 = 165 bpm

So, in the earlier suggestion of McGibbon ~ "Brisk"...

# Posted on July 15th 2006 by ceolachan

"Killiecrankie" ~ CALLING ALL PIPERS ~ "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion"!!! ~ ???

I am sadly lacking some of my resources. I would very much like to see the ABC's added here for the 4-part take on this tune that is in "O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes" 1806 ~ please? I know some of you pipers out there will have it. There was also a reissue done by Patrick Sky, but I'm unsure whether or not this tune was in that. So ~ how's about it? I still have the D version to place here too...soon...but hope others will contribute too...

# Posted on July 15th 2006 by ceolachan