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|f_annotation='''STAK IN VERGO.''' AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "[[Stalk en Vauraga]]," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician [[biography:John Bowie]] in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published by William Crotch<ref>William Crotch, '''Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London''', vol. 1, London, 1807.</ref> as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Around the same time piper O'Farrell published a version of the tune in London in his '''Pocket Companion for the Union or Irish Pipes''', vol. 1 (No. 126) as "[[Stalk en Vauraga]]." | |f_annotation='''STAK IN VERGO.''' AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "[[Stalk en Vauraga]]," "Staughenvoragh," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician [[biography:John Bowie]] in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published in McFadyen's '''Repository''' (c. 1800) with the nearly identical title "Stack in Virgo", and by William Crotch<ref>William Crotch, '''Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London''', vol. 1, London, 1807.</ref> as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Around the same time piper O'Farrell published a version of the tune in London in his '''Pocket Companion for the Union or Irish Pipes''', vol. 1 (No. 126) as "[[Stalk en Vauraga]]." | ||
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Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" ([[Market Stake (The)]]"). | <br> | ||
Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song "The dawning of morn", beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" ([[Market Stake (The)]]"). | |||
|f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 29. | |f_printed_sources=John Bowie ('''Collection of strathspey reels & country dances &c.'''), Edinburgh, c. 1789; p. 29. | ||
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STAK IN VERGO. AKA - "Stáca an Margiadh," "Stalk en Vauraga," "Staughenvoragh," "Strachan variga." Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The Irish air"Stáca an Margiadh" was printed by Scottish musician biography:John Bowie in his c. 1789 collection of strathspey reels, country dances and airs. His garbled title was "Stak in Vergo." The tune was also published in McFadyen's Repository (c. 1800) with the nearly identical title "Stack in Virgo", and by William Crotch[1] as "Strachan variga" in a version he sourced to John Baptist Malchair taken "from the playing of a blind piper." Around the same time piper O'Farrell published a version of the tune in London in his Pocket Companion for the Union or Irish Pipes, vol. 1 (No. 126) as "Stalk en Vauraga."
Thomas Moore used a version of the air for his song "The dawning of morn", beginning "Thee, thee, only thee" (Market Stake (The)").
- ↑ William Crotch, Specimens of Various Styles of Music referred to in a Course of Lectures read at Oxford and London, vol. 1, London, 1807.