Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 24th 2007 by bogman.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Rattray
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
d2 AG FDDF|GEEA FDDA|d2 AG FDDg|fdec d2 dA:|
defg affa|beed cAAc|defg affa|beec d2 AB|
defg affa|beed cAAc|BGGB FDDg|fdec d2 dA||
Miss Rattrey
This is an old traditional Scottish tune I learned from Shetland fiddler Fionn MacArthur. It dates from the 1800's or earlier.
# Posted on September 24th 2007 by bogman
Another version of this tune was posted a few months ago:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7524
It was also posted as the 3rd and 4th parts of The Flood on the Holm http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1041 - a 6 part reel put together by John Doherty, made up of three older reels (which, according to the comments to that tune, are all Scott-Skinner compositions, thus dating from late C19th or early C20th).
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by granama
This is Miss Rattery
This tune appears in 'The Skye Collection' first published 1887. This is pretty much the way it appears in the book. The tune you refer to is likely be a version of this rather than the other way round. It is in common with the syle of tune from that period whereas Robbie Hannan's has a more modern arrangement.
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by bogman
Flood on the Holm
As I pointed out in the comments to "Flood on the Holm", the Miss Rattray reel is not part of that tune at all, with all the parts being clearly lifted from Scott's Skinner tunes.
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by prouse
This is Miss Rattray
Not "Rattrey," of course.
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by slainte
It is indeed
Thanks slainte, I've corrected the title.
# Posted on September 25th 2007 by bogman
" Miss Rattray" ~ 1884 & 1887 sources
"The Athole Collection" ~ 1884
Compiled by James Stewart Robertson
"The Skye Collection of the Best Reels & Strathspeys" ~ 1887
Compiled by Keith Norman MacDonald
As usual, identical transcriptions... An earlier publication of this was in "The Dance Music of Scotland", 1851, by J.T. Surrene...
Bogman's transcript is basically copied from "The Skye Collection", page 34... The only difference are the lead-ins and that the B-part is fully written out, rather than as 1st and 2nd endings ~
X: 1134
T: Miss Rattray
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: D Major
|: (3A/B/c/ |
d2 AG FDDF | GEEA FDDA | d2 AG FDDg |[1 fdec d2 d :|[2 fdec d2 dA ||
defg affa | beed cAAc |[1 defg affa | beec d2 AB :|[2 BGGB FDDg | fdec d2 d |]
# Posted on September 26th 2007 by ceolachan
B-part is fully written out in the collections mentioned, I did the reduction of the B-part to 1st and 2nd endings...
# Posted on September 26th 2007 by ceolachan
"Robbie Hannan's" / "Miss Rattray" ~ reel
Key signature: D Major
Submitted on July 22nd 2007 by JACKB.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7524
This is the 'other' transcript linked to above, 32 measures, given as JACKB's transcription of Robbie Hannan's playing. I find it odd, not comfortable. This transcript, wherever taken from, makes more sense to me as a better dance tune, 16 measures. It just sings and is more in agreement with itself than the Hannan one given... The differences in the B-parts are considerable.
I hope this one doesn't go "POOF!", as in my ears it is the better transcription...
# Posted on September 26th 2007 by ceolachan