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|f_annotation='''TASTE DA GREEN.''' AKA and see "[[Aald Wife O Niddister (Da)]]." Shetland, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel celebrates the coming of spring, when sheep could again graze off the new grass of the meadows. A variant of the tune was also found on Yell, Shetland, though with the parts reversed. The tune was collected by folklorist, musician and choreographer Pat Shaw from the playing of fiddler Peter Scollay | |f_annotation='''TASTE DA GREEN.''' AKA and see "[[Aald Wife O Niddister (Da)]]." Shetland, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel celebrates the coming of spring, when sheep could again graze off the new grass of the meadows. A variant of the tune was also found on Yell, Shetland, though with the parts reversed. The tune was collected by folklorist, musician and choreographer Pat Shaw from the playing of fiddler Peter Scollay (1922-2000), Burravoe, Shetland, in a field recording from the early 1950's. The tune is described (on the Folktrax issue of Shaw's recordings) as "a triple time reel" (which, on listening, does not seem correct). | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Arthur Peterson (Shetland) [Anderson & Georgeson]. | |f_source_for_notated_version=Arthur Peterson (Shetland) [Anderson & Georgeson]. | ||
|f_printed_sources=Anderson & Georgeson ('''Da Mirrie Dancers'''), 1970; p. 23. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 221. | |f_printed_sources=Anderson & Georgeson ('''Da Mirrie Dancers'''), 1970; p. 23. Hunter ('''Fiddle Music of Scotland'''), 1988; No. 221. | ||
|f_recorded_sources=Folktrax FTX 068, Peter Scollay -"Da Mirrie Boys" (various artists, recorded in | |f_recorded_sources=Folktrax FTX 068, Peter Scollay -"Da Mirrie Boys" (1978. various artists, recorded in 1951-52 by Pat Shaw). Leader 2052, Da Forty Fiddlers - "Shetland Fiddlers" (1973).<span>Thule Records SNI214, Tom Anderson &Marjory Smith - "Shetland Fiddle Music" (n.d.). Topic Records12TS281, Tom Anderson, Aly Bain - "The Silver Bow: The Fiddle Music of Scotland" (1976).</span> | ||
|f_see_also_listing=Hear a 1954 field recording (collected by Iain Maclean) of Peter Scollay playing the tune at Tobar an Dualchais [https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/89467?l=en], described as "an old Shetland reel." </a> | |||
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Latest revision as of 03:04, 16 July 2021
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B:Anderson & Georgeson – Da Mirrie Dancers (1970, p. 23)
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TASTE DA GREEN. AKA and see "Aald Wife O Niddister (Da)." Shetland, Shetland Reel. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This reel celebrates the coming of spring, when sheep could again graze off the new grass of the meadows. A variant of the tune was also found on Yell, Shetland, though with the parts reversed. The tune was collected by folklorist, musician and choreographer Pat Shaw from the playing of fiddler Peter Scollay (1922-2000), Burravoe, Shetland, in a field recording from the early 1950's. The tune is described (on the Folktrax issue of Shaw's recordings) as "a triple time reel" (which, on listening, does not seem correct).
