Key signature: Gmixolydian
Submitted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 13 tunebooks.
Also known as Piper's Fancy, The Piper's Fancy, Piper's Maggot, The Piper's Maggot, Piper's Whim, Pipers Fancy, The Pipers Fancy, Pipers Maggot, The Pipers Maggot, Pipers Whim, The Pipers Whim, Pipers' Fancy, Pipers' Maggot, Pipers' Whim.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Piper's Whim, The
M: 9/8
L: 1/8
R: slip jig
K: Gmix
|: A |
B2 G GDG dBG | B/c/dB gdB deg |
B2 G GDG d2 G | A/B/cA fcA c2 :|
|: A |
B2 d gdB gdc | B2 d gdB de/^f/g |
[1 B/c/dB gdB gdB | A/B/cA fcA c2 :|
[2 bb/a/g a>g^f g2 e | f2 c A/B/cA fc ||
"The Piper's Whim" / "The Piper's Maggot" ~ 1922
"O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody", 1922, #192
Source: Officer & piper William Walsh, Chicago
K: G Major
|: c |
B3 GBG dBG | B/c/dB gdB efg |
B3 GBG dBG | A/B/cA fAB c2 :|
|: c |
B/c/dB gdB gdB | B/c/dB gdB efg |
1 B/c/dB gdB gdB | B/c/dB fAB c2 :|
2 bag agf efg | B/c/dB cAF G2 ||
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Piper's Whim" / "The Piper's Maggot" ~ 1757
Robert Bremner's Collection, 1757, Edinburgh
K: G Major
|: d |
B2 G GAG dBG | B/c/dB gdB deg |
B2 G GAG dBG | A/B/cA =fcA c2 :|
|: d |
B2 d gdB gdc | B2 d gdB deg |
B2 d gdB gdB | A/B/cA =fcA c2 :|
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Piper's Maggot" ~ 1802
Nathaniel Gow's 2nd Repository, 1802
This is identical to the transcription previous except for a slight difference in the 1st bar of the B-part, it being in agreement, identical, to the following 3rd bar ~
|: d |
B2 d gdB gdB | B2 d gdB deg |
B2 d gdB gdB | A/B/cA =fcA c2 :|
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
"Piper's Maggot" / "Piper's Fancy" ~ 1882
Northumbrian Minstrelsey - Bruce & Stokes, 1882
K: G Major
|: c |
d3 GBG dBG | B/c/dB gdB efg |
d3 GBG dBG | A/B/cA =fAB c2 :|
|: c |
B/c/dB gdB gdB | B/c/dc fdB efg |
B/c/dB gdB gdB | A/B/cA =fAB c2 :|
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Piper's Maggot" ~ "O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody", 1922
“’The Piper's Maggot’, as this old tune was called, first appeared in print in "Rob't Bremner's Collection of Scots Reels and Country Dances, Edinburgh 1758". As the word Maggot which means an odd fancy or whim is obsolete in this age, the change of name is permissible. The tune was printed in Aird's Selections etc., London 1797, and in later publications somewhat varied.” ~ Captain Francis O'Neill
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
The second ending I've given in the transcription is my take on it, moving the melody a notch forward in the last two measures and into an Ouroboros cycle...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
You're getting lazy with your abc headers of late, 'c', tut tut tut
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by Dow
If you mean the ones in the 'Comments', that is the way they were listed? If not, please, tell me ~ PLEASE! ~ TELL ME!!!
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
Nah, that smilie don't do it. I'm supposed to be screaming...
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
Ahhhh, so! ~
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan
With the ABC's, being of the old school, though I have made adjustments, I've missed the XYZ's...
# Posted on March 26th 2007 by ceolachan