Key signature: Aminor
Submitted on October 19th 2006 by McMandolin.
This tune has been added to 24 tunebooks.
Also known as Gloomy Winter's Now Awa, Lord Balgonie's Favorite, Lord Balgonie's Favourite.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Gloomy Winter
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: strathspey
K: Amin
|:E<A A>B AG E2| c<c c<e dc B>G |c<c e>B AG EC|DE/2F/2 E>^G A>A, A,B,:|
C2 C<E D>C B,>D| C>B, A,>C B,>E E2|c2 c<e d>c Bc/2d/2|c>A BG A2 A>B|
c2 gc Bc d>G| c>B (3ABc B<e e>d|E>G A/2G/2E/2D/2 EA Bc/2d/2|c>A BG A2 Az|
Gloomy Winter
A thread on the discussion board reminded me of this old Scottish Slow air. It is also called Lord Balgonie's Favorite.
# Posted on October 19th 2006 by McMandolin
Wouldn't it be better categorised as a strathspey than a reel? There's a large body of tunes in the Scottish fiddle repertoire called, 'slow strathspeys', which, while having the rhythmic structure of a strathspey, are played at slow tempo and more-or-less rubato.
# Posted on October 20th 2006 by OrganicPeatCreature
Yes Spoon I think I should have done that. Maybe I still can.
# Posted on October 20th 2006 by McMandolin
Also used in the movie the piano and often played by Ben the Hoose.
# Posted on October 27th 2007 by Joze
Been singing this to myself to learn it and it kept drifting into something more like 6/8. Searched around and found a reference to it as the being the same melody as 'Bacca Pipes Jig'.
# Posted on October 27th 2008 by david_h