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'''FIGHT ABOUT THE FIRESIDE'''. AKA and see "[[Road to Arisaig]]," "[[Strathspey in Memory of Angus Allan Gillis]]," "[[White Clover]]." Canadian, Strathspey; Scottish, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. C Major. Standard tuning. AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Gow): AABB (Dunlay & Greenberg, Dunlay & Reich, Honeyman, Kerr). A so-called 'double-tonic' melody. Fight About the Fireside is also the name of a Scottish country dance, first printed in the Gow's '''Five Favourite Country Dances for 1822'''. "[[Glenburnie Rant (The)]]" has become associated with the this country dance, as it is often the first tune in the medley played as accompaniment, and thus "Glenburnie Rant" is sometimes (erroneously) called "Fight About the Fireside." The tune was included by Waverton, Cumbria | |f_annotation='''FIGHT ABOUT THE FIRESIDE'''. AKA and see "[[Road to Arisaig]]," "[[Strathspey in Memory of Angus Allan Gillis]]," "[[White Clover]]." Canadian, Strathspey; Scottish, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. C Major (Campbell, Lowe, Mackintosh, Stewart-Robertson: D Major (Goodman, Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Campbell, Goodman, Gow, Lowe): AABB (Dunlay & Greenberg, Dunlay & Reich, Honeyman, Kerr). A so-called 'double-tonic' melody. Fight About the Fireside is also the name of a Scottish country dance, first printed in the Gow's '''Five Favourite Country Dances for 1822'''. "[[Glenburnie Rant (The)]]" has become associated with the this country dance, as it is often the first tune in the medley played as accompaniment, and thus "Glenburnie Rant" is sometimes (erroneously) called "Fight About the Fireside." The tune was included by musician John Rook (Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria) in his 1840 manuscript collection (p. 208), as well as by County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon [[biography:James Goodman]] in his large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. iii, p. 166). In the '''Cavendish Music Books No. 22: Album of National Dances''' there is a note that this was the favorite reel of the Prince Regent. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Joe Cormier (Cape Breton & Boston) [Dunlay and Reich], Alex Gillis and Alcide Aucoin (Cape Breton) [Dunlay & Greenberg]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=William Campbell ('''Book 16th of Strathspey Reels, Waltz’s & Irish Jigs for the Harp, Piano-Forte & Violin, with their Proper Figures, as Danced at Court, Bath, Williss’s, & Hanover Square Rooms'''), Soho, London, 1801; p. 21. | |||
Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 46. | |||
Corfield ('''Tunes from New Brunswick'''), 2024; p. 47. | |||
'' | Dunlay & Greenberg ('''Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton'''), 1996; p. 68. | ||
Dunlay & Reich ('''Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music of Cape Breton'''), 1986; p. 66. | |||
Gow ('''Complete Repository, Part 1'''), 1799; p. 19. | |||
Honeyman ('''Strathspey, Reel and Hornpipe Tutor'''), 1898; p. 15. | |||
Kerr ('''Merry Melodies, vol. 2'''), No. 79, p. 11. | |||
'' | Joseph Lowe ('''Lowe's Collection of Reels, Strathspeys and Jigs, book 2'''), 1844–1845; p. 15. | ||
Robert Mackintosh ('''A Fourth Collection of New Strathspey Reels, also some Famous old Reels'''), 1804; p. 15. | |||
'''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 74. | |||
Stewart-Robertson ('''The Athole Collection'''), 1884; p. 63. | |||
Surenne ('''Dance Music of Scotland'''), 1852; p. 31. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=PLP4-1012, Joe Cormier – "The Cheticamp Connection" (appears as "Strathspey in Memory of Angus Allan Gillis"). | |||
Decca 14006 (78 RPM), Alex Gillis and Alcide Aucoin/The Inverness Serenaders (appears as "White Clover"). | |||
Celtic 57 (SCX 57), The Five MacDonald Fiddlers – "The Fiddlers of Cape Breton" (various artists. Appears as "Road to Arisaig"). | |||
CDAB-3 26-1, Kinnon Beaton – "Cape Breton Fiddle I." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2906.html]<br> | |||
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Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [http://www.cbfiddle.com/rx/tune/t2906.html]<br> | ------------- | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:01, 5 October 2024
FIGHT ABOUT THE FIRESIDE. AKA and see "Road to Arisaig," "Strathspey in Memory of Angus Allan Gillis," "White Clover." Canadian, Strathspey; Scottish, Reel. Canada, Cape Breton. C Major (Campbell, Lowe, Mackintosh, Stewart-Robertson: D Major (Goodman, Rook). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Surenne): AAB (Athole, Campbell, Goodman, Gow, Lowe): AABB (Dunlay & Greenberg, Dunlay & Reich, Honeyman, Kerr). A so-called 'double-tonic' melody. Fight About the Fireside is also the name of a Scottish country dance, first printed in the Gow's Five Favourite Country Dances for 1822. "Glenburnie Rant (The)" has become associated with the this country dance, as it is often the first tune in the medley played as accompaniment, and thus "Glenburnie Rant" is sometimes (erroneously) called "Fight About the Fireside." The tune was included by musician John Rook (Waverton, near Wigton, Cumbria) in his 1840 manuscript collection (p. 208), as well as by County Cork cleric and uilleann piper Canon biography:James Goodman in his large mid-19th century music manuscript collection (vol. iii, p. 166). In the Cavendish Music Books No. 22: Album of National Dances there is a note that this was the favorite reel of the Prince Regent.
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