Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on May 30th 2007 by benhall.1.
This tune has been added to 5 tunebooks.
Also known as Frank Cassidy's Highland Fling, Highlands, Laird O' Thrums, The Laird O' Thrums, Laird O’Thrums, The Laird O’Thrums, Laird Of Thrums, The Laird Of Thrums.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Frank Cassidy's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Amaj
(3agf (3efg a2 ed | c<e AB c<B Bg | (3agf (3efg a2 ec |
d<f Bd c<A Ag | (3agf (3efg a2 ed | c<e AB c<B Bg |
(3agf (3gfe (3fed (3edc | (3def (3Bcd c<A ag ||
f2 cf Af F2 | fg (3agf (3c'fg (3agf | e2 Be Ge E2 |
ef (3gfe (3bef (3gfe | a2 ea ca Ag | (3afa (3geg (3fdf ec |
(3def (3Bcd (3cde (3ABc | (3Bcd (3efg a<A A2 ||
Third in the set
This is the third tune in the set of highlands I 'inadvertently' learnt from the Oisin McAuley CD 'Far From the Hills of Donegal'. The previous two, which I've posted are listed here as John Doherty's Highland and Neil Gow's Wife (though I gather there is some disagreement over the name of that one).
Great tune - very 'fiddle-istic' as it were.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by benhall.1
The Laird o' Thrums (strathspey)
That's the original title of this Scott Skinner tune.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by slainte
Oh dear - I would love to hear the album. It sounds like a cracker but Oisin seems to be really rotten at finding the names to tunes.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Maybe we could blame it all on psychadelics, or the dizzying swirls of paisley prints?
Sorry, I actually have been amassing something constructive to add here, since days ago. Honest, and it will follow, at least 'something'...
I have been being 'distracted'...
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by ceolachan
Names ...
I don't care if he *is* rotten at finding the names - he's a phenomenal fiddler and, I have it on good authority, a lovely man.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by benhall.1
Hey, touchy, touchy, most of us have a problem with names, I know I do. I sometimes forget my own and know your's better that others Ben.
Hey, go on, tell us, slip us a name or a quote ~ what 'authority'?
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by ceolachan
''yours' ~ see, spelling and other screw-ups... Sheesh!
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by ceolachan
Personally I am rotten with tune names unless I have learned them on the whistle or are played ALL the time. They tend to become "that one in D" or "that one in G" or "that one that goes 'la de da de diddly la de dee'" (which is a cracker by the way
)
I am sure he is a lovely man, although that has little bearing on whether his CD is good or not! Names do not really matter unless you are bringing out a CD when all of a sudden the correct names are crucial. Mr Trad. will not mind if you incorrectly name a composition of his too much but I imagine Messrs McGoldrick, Shaw and McCusker or Ms Shannon would be most p*ssed off at potentially missing out on the PRS and the recognition! Whilst I am happy for the name of "Cassidy" to be getting extra coverage it does not change the fact that it is not the correct name.
I clicked on this tune in the first place because it was the name of my Grandfather and I wondered if it was the tune my uncle (a Piano Accordian player) wrote for him. It is not.
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Bothering to do a little research, or just asking someone to help with a name, is no great discomfort...at least not for most... You'd think for your big release, like a commercial CD, someone would want to get it right?!
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by ceolachan
"Can you hum me a few bars?"
I guess That puts me with Alarm... I had a friend that when faced with putting out his CD had a whole slew of Gan Ainms, but they were honest Gan Ainms. Nobody had a clue, and that includes the folks producing the record, who would definitely fall into being 'in the know', and not the Folklore people at University College Dublin, just so you know a little effort was involved in the 'beforehand'. They weren't, at the time, in any printed collections either. Now, in some areas and times this was not uncommon. The folks producing it weren't wanting an album full of gan ainms, which I think we can all sympathize with. So, they asked my friend to just go ahead and give them some names, and he did. Now those names are in the flow, they are here on site too. I do remember that the biggest frustration for this poor musician, cornered as he was to give out names, was when he was out and folks started requesting he play those tunes he had no names for. The problem was, while he had no name for them, these folks, under the influence of his album, did have names to request...
I think there is some reason to wonder when it isn't just a case of 'gan ainm' but an obviously wrong name or made up name when a well known one already existed in currency...
Like Alarm says, we all make mistakes, I do too often, to the point of frustration, but with a CD ~ if I didn't know I'd find someone I trusted to find out, and I might even seek a second opinion, and would definitely chase up the name to see what notes were associated with it.
Whew!? That wasn't what I'd been planning to add. It will follow...
# Posted on May 30th 2007 by ceolachan
"The Laird O' Thrums" ~ as first published ~ J. Scott Skinner
The Monekie Series No.3 - containing -
Laird O'Thrums Strathspey / The Gay Gordons Pipe March / The Zeppelin Humourous Hornpipe
Dedicated to Alexander McPherson Esq ~ Kirriemuir
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0698
New Schottische or Strathspey ~ !!!
X: 1134
T: The Laird o' Thrums
C: J. Scott Skinner
M: 4/4
L:1/8
R: Schottische / Strathspey
K: A Major
|: g |
(3agf (3.e.f.g a2 e>d | c<eA>a (cB) (B>g) |
[1 (3agf .e.f.g a2 e>d | d>fB>e {cd}c>AA>g :|
[2 (3.a.g.f (3.g.f.e (3.f.e.^d e>c | d<fB>e ({cd}cA)A ||
c |
f2 c>f A>fc>f | (3cfg (3.a.g.f (3[cc']fg (3.a.g.f |
{^d}e2 B>e G>eB>e | (3Bef (3.g.f.e (3.b.e.f (3.g.f.e |
a2 e>a c>eA>g | (3agf (3gfe (3fe^d (3e=dc |
(3def (3Bcd (3cde (3ABc | (3 def (3efg ({g}a2 a) |]
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/introduction.shtml
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/discography.shtml
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands:
Ceol na Fidhle Volumes Three and Four"
Compiled and arranged by Christine Martin
Taigh na Teud
ISBN: 1-871931-088
http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/
http://www.scotlandsmusic.com/highland.htm
Page 82: " The Laird O' Thrums" (A) ~ J. Scott Skinner
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
"The Laird O' Thrums" by J. Scott Skinner
The Fiddler's Companion ~ Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/LAEG_LAM.htm
LAIRD OF THRUMS. Scottish, Strathspey. A Major. Standard. AB. Composed by J. Scott Skinner (1843-1927) and dedicated to Alex MacPherson of Kirriemuir; the title was Skinner's nickname for his friend, and Thrums was the old name for Kirriemuir. Hunter (The Fiddle Music of Scotland), 1988; No. 131. Martin (Ceol na Fidhle), vol. 4, 1991; pg. 18. Philo 2001, "Jean Carignan." Topic 12T280, J. Scott Skinner “The Starthspey King.” Smithsonian Folkways Records, SFW CD 40507, The Beaton Family of Mabou – “Cape Breton Fiddle and Piano Music” (2004).
Plus another transcription...
# Posted on June 2nd 2007 by ceolachan
Recording: "Dermot Byrne"
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/602
Track 4: highlands ~ #1
2.) "Jimmy Lyons" / "The Miller O' Hirn"
~ highland fling / strathspey
Key signature: Amajor
Submitted on June 30th 2001 by martin t.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/171
3.) "The Brown-Sailed Boat" / "Peter Baillie"
~ highland fling / strathspey
Key signature: E Dorian
Submitted on April 15th 2004 by jdave.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/2823
Discussion: Highlands...
# Posted on May 28th 2007 by dinn2
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/13906
# Posted on June 3rd 2007 by ceolachan