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| |f_artwork=Lochiel's_charge_at_Killycrankie.jpg
| | |f_annotation='''FARMER'S REEL [1]'''. AKA - "The Farmer." AKA and see "[[Boys from Scart (The)]]," "[[Coquette (1)]]," "[[Delaware Hornpipe]]," "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." Canadian, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The second strain is cognate with the first three alternate titles, and both strains are cognate with "[[Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)]]." See note for "[[annotation:Ottawa Valley Reel (1) (The)|Ottawa Valley Reel]]" for more. |
| |f_tune_name=Killiecrankie
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| |f_track_title=Killiecrankie_(1)
| | |f_printed_sources=Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 41. Messer ('''Way Down East'''), 1948; No. 14. Messer ('''Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes'''), 1980; p. 55. |
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| |f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/natalie-macmaster Natalie McMaster]
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| |f_notes= The charge of the Cameron Jacobite forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
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| |f_caption=The title commemorates the famous Battle of Killiecrankie, Perthshire, in 1689 between the Highland forces led by Claverhouse in support of the Catholic King James II, and the Protestant Major-General Hugh Mackay, leader of the army of William III (although composed primarily of Lowland Scots).
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| |f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/natalie-macmaster/killiecrankie Soundcloud]
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| |f_article=[[Killiecrankie_(1) | '''Killiecrankie''']]
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| The name Killiecrankie is derived from the Gaelic root word coille, meaning a wood, coupled with 'crankie,' which refers to aspens; thus the phrase means 'wood of the aspens' (Matthews, 1972).
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| Johnson (1983) states it was later renamed after another (different) battle called Tranent Muir, East Lothian, fought in 1745 {which battle is usually known as the Battle of Prestonpans}. He suggests on stylistic reasons that the tune may be the surviving opening for a battle pibroch (see "Highland Battle, A"), although no other parts have come down. The tune, as "Keel Cranke" was published by Henry Playford in his 1700 collection of Scottish tunes (Original Scots Tunes), however, the earliest printing of the song appears to be in the Leyden Manuscript of c. 1692, according to John Glen (Early Scottish Melodies).
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| 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). Glen dates the Leyden Manuscript by its inclusion of tunes referring to 'King James March to Ireland' and the "Watter (sic) of the Boyne," a reference to the Jacobite Wars.
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| As "Irish Gillycranky (The)" it is included in the Henry Atkinson manuscript of 1694/95. "Killiecrankie" was set for violin and continuo by William MacGibbon (1695-1756), and was printed by Oswald in his Caledonian Pocket Companion.
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X: 1
T:Farmer's Reel [1], The
R:Reel
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Transcribed by Bruce Osborne
K:G
d>c|BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|E2A2 A2dc|
BGBd BGBd|gfge dBGB|ecdB cABG|D2G2 G2:|
|:g2|dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|ea^ca ea^ca|e2ag fed^c|
dgBg dgBg|dgba gfed|faba gfef|g2g2 g2:|
|:B>c|dBgB dgBg|ecgc egce|dBgB dgBd|AGFE D2Bc|
dBgB dgBd|ecgc egce|dBGB cAFA|G2B2 G2:||
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Corfield (Tunes from New Brunswick), 2024; p. 41. Messer (Way Down East), 1948; No. 14. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980; p. 55.
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