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|f_annotation='''ATHOLE BROSE'''. AKA and see "[[Buckingham House (1)]]," "[[Dogs Among the Bushes (The)]]," "[[Niel Gow's Favorite]]." Scottish, Canadian; Reel or Strathspey. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. D Mixolydian or D Mixolydian/Major (Cranford/Holland, Dunlay & Greenberg, Jones, Perlman): A Minor ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part) {Skinner}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford/Holland): ABB (Jones, Skye): AABB (Gow, Kerr): AA'BB (Athole): AA'BB' (Perlman): AABBCC (Skinner). | |f_annotation='''ATHOLE BROSE'''. AKA and see "[[Buckingham House (1)]]," "[[Dogs Among the Bushes (The)]]," "[[Niel Gow's Favorite]]." Scottish, Canadian; Reel or Strathspey. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. D Mixolydian or D Mixolydian/Major (Cranford/Holland, Dunlay & Greenberg, Jones, Perlman): A Minor ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part) {Skinner}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford/Holland): ABB (Jones, Skye): AABB (Gow, Kerr): AA'BB (Athole): AA'BB' (Perlman): AABBCC (Skinner). | ||
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X:1 T:Athole Brose, or Niel Gow's Favorite Strathspey M:C L:1/8 R:Strathspey B:Gow - 3rd Collection of Niel Gow's Reels, 3rd ed., pp. 22-23 (orig. 1792) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmix A|F>D D/D/D A,DDG|F>D D/D/D (G/A/B) AG|F>D D/D/D A,DD=F|1 (3E=FG CE cGEG:|2 (3E=FG CE cGEC||:DdTd>c dedc|Ad(d>e) =fdec|d<d=fd ecfd|(c>dc>)G ECGE||
ATHOLE BROSE. AKA and see "Buckingham House (1)," "Dogs Among the Bushes (The)," "Niel Gow's Favorite." Scottish, Canadian; Reel or Strathspey. Canada; Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton. D Mixolydian or D Mixolydian/Major (Cranford/Holland, Dunlay & Greenberg, Jones, Perlman): A Minor ('A' and 'C' parts) & A Major ('B' part) {Skinner}. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Cranford/Holland): ABB (Jones, Skye): AABB (Gow, Kerr): AA'BB (Athole): AA'BB' (Perlman): AABBCC (Skinner).
You've surely heard o' the famous Niel,
The man that played the fiddle weel;
I wat he was a canty chiel,
And dearly loved the whisky, O
And aye sin' he wore tartan hose,
He dearly lo'ed the Athole Brose;
And wae was he, yu may suppose,
To bed 'farewell to whisky', O.
Cape Breton fiddlers play it as a strathspey in the key of D, where it is often the vehicle for stepdancing. It is also often the practice on the island to play the reel "[General Stewart]]" (AKA "Lady Muir MacKenzie") following it (Dunlay & Greenberg, 1996). Cape Breton fiddler Jackie Dunn, in her thesis "Tha Bals na Gaidhlig air a h-Uile Fidhleir" (The Sound of Gaelic is in the Fiddler's Music), 1991, remarks that there is known to have been Gaelic words to "Athole Brose." In Ireland the melody is known as "Dogs Among the Bushes (The)."